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Just a fun, quirky book about the fall of Humpty Dumpty. Detective Jack Spratt and Mary Mary from the Nursery Crime Division, are on the case.
Did Mr. Dumpty fall or was it something more sinister??
Detective Spratt has a bit of a reputation as he helped catch the psycho serial killer, The Gingerbread Man.
As I said it is a bit quirky, but it got tiring near the end. I will read the second in the series (thank goodness there are only 2 in the Nursery crime series) titled The Fourth Bear.
Goodreads:
It's Easter in Reading—a bad time for eggs—and no one can remember the last sunny day. Ovoid D-class nursery celebrity Humpty Stuyvesant Van Dumpty III, minor baronet, ex-convict, and former millionaire philanthropist, is found shattered to death beneath a wall in a shabby area of town. All the evidence points to his ex-wife, who has conveniently shot herself.
But Detective Inspector Jack Spratt and his assistant Mary Mary remain unconvinced, a sentiment not shared with their superiors at the Reading Police Department, who are still smarting over their failure to convict the Three Pigs of murdering Mr. Wolff. Before long Jack and Mary find themselves grappling with a sinister plot involving cross-border money laundering, bullion smuggling, problems with beanstalks, titans seeking asylum, and the cut and thrust world of international chiropody.
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