Jasper Fford: The Big Over Easy

This is murder mystery.  Detective Inspector Jack Spratt of the Nursery Crime Division is assigned to investigate the death of Humpty Dumpty.  Assisted by Detective Sergeant Mary Mary, they struggle to find out if the oversized egg died by accidental, by suicide or by murder.  To further confuse the issue, several people admit to murdering Humpty but their confession doesn't jibe with reality.  Throw in a failing foot remedy company whose almost worthless stock Humpty bought up in huge batches for unknown reasons.  Another unknown is were he got the gold he used to buy the shares.

I expected humor from this novel ( and got it ), but I didn't expect to find a fully developed and very complicated mystery.

This is the first Fforde novel I read and now I'll be searching for more of them to read.

4 stars

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