false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172198103m/148809.jpg 148809 14 <B>Jack Spratt and Mary Mary return in their second adventure from the inimitable Jasper Fforde</B> <BR><BR> Five years ago, Viking introduced Jasper Fforde and his upsidedown, inside-out literary crime masterpieces. And as they move from Thursday Next to Jack Spratt's Nursery Crimes, his audience is insatiable and growing. Now, with <I>The Fourth Bear</I>, Jack Spratt and Mary Mary take on their most dangerous case so far as a murderous cookie stalks the streets of Reading. <P> The Gingerbreadman&#151;psychopath, sadist, genius, and killer&#151;is on the loose. But it isn't Jack Spratt's case. He and Mary Mary have been demoted to Missing Persons following Jack's poor judgment involving the poisoning of Mr. Bun the baker. Missing Persons looks like a boring assignment until a chance encounter leads them into the hunt for missing journalist Henrietta &#147;Goldy&#148; Hatchett, star reporter for <I>The Daily Mole</I>. Last to see her alive? The Three Bears, comfortably living out a life of rural solitude in Andersen's wood. <P> But all is not what it seems. How could the bears' porridge be at such disparate temperatures when they were poured at the same time? Why did Mr. and Mrs. Bear sleep in separate beds? Was there a fourth bear? And if there was, who was he, and why did he try to disguise Goldy's death as a freak accident? <P> Jack answers all these questions and a few others besides, rescues Mary Mary from almost certain death, and finally meets the Fourth Bear and the Gingerbreadman face-to-face. 948571 book 2006 The Fourth Bear (Nursery Crime, #2) total:3253|5:955|4:1401|3:762|2:118|1:17| 3253 12918 4459 405 4 1 false false Sun Sep 07 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Sep 02 20:37:24 -0700 2008 Sun Sep 07 12:42:42 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 1 false false Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Tue Sep 25 14:25:15 -0700 2007 Fri Oct 12 11:05:21 -0700 2007 more...]]> 4 1 false false Mon May 19 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon May 19 08:29:24 -0700 2008 Mon May 19 08:50:51 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 1 false false Tue May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Wed Apr 25 21:44:57 -0700 2007 Wed May 09 22:25:18 -0700 2007 love Jasper Fforde. I want to have coffee with him, because if he is anything like his books then it would be one hell of a coffee date.

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The Nursery Crimes books can probably best be describe...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Sep 20 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Sep 20 16:28:42 -0700 2009 Sun Sep 20 16:33:08 -0700 2009 - The humor in Fforde's books is out of this world, and gets better with each passing one. The entries from the 'Bumper Book of Berkshire records' are hilarious.
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In the town of Reading, Berkshire, England the local constabulary is immersed in the case of a missing journalist. Henrietta “Goldy” Hatchett, intrepid but fussy, reporter for a local paper was on the trail of a big story when her last info...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Wed Oct 17 18:59:33 -0700 2007 Wed Oct 17 19:13:53 -0700 2007 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Wed Oct 10 11:37:33 -0700 2007 Sun Dec 30 12:06:11 -0800 2007 more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Tue Sep 25 17:54:51 -0700 2007 Wed Oct 10 20:51:39 -0700 2007 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=148809