The fourth bear : a nursery crime

Fforde, Jasper

The fourth bear : a nursery crime / Jasper Fforde - xii, 378 pages - Nursery crime, book 2 .

Jack Spratt and Mary Mary have been demoted to Missing Persons, because of Jack's poor judgement involving the poisoning of Mr. Bun the baker. The Gingerbread man, a psychopathic sadistic convicted murderer cookie, is loose on the streets of Reading. Jack and Mary have a chance encounter at the Deja Vu Hotel, which results in hunting for Henrietta "Goldy" Hatchett, a missing journalist, star reporter for The Mole. The last witnesses to see her alive were the Three Bears. All is not as it seems. Why was the porridge at different temperature, if poured at the same time? Was there a fourth bear? If so, who was he?

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Nursery rhymes--Fiction


Detective and mystery fiction

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