The Big Over Easy

An Alternative Nursery Rhyme Noir

Things aren’t all as they should be on Jack Spratt’s beat. As it turns out, Humpty Dumpty (short for Humperdinck Jehosephat Aloysius Stuyvesant van Dumpty) did have a great fall, but he did so under very suspicious circumstances. Jack Spratt of the Nursery Crime Division and his partner, Mary Mary, are still sore for not being able to convict the three pigs of premeditation in their boiling of the wolf, are sent to investigate Humpty’s suspicious demise.

This is a terrifically funny book that will appeal to those who love British humor and puns, or for those who have been longing to learn about the secret histories of the nursery rhyme characters they thought they knew.