TY - BOOK AU - Fforde,Jasper TI - The fourth bear: : a nursery crime T2 - Nursery crime, SN - 0670037729 U1 - Fic PY - 2006/// CY - New York PB - Viking KW - Nursery rhymes KW - Fiction KW - lcgft KW - Detective and mystery fiction N2 - 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? ER -