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In Jasper Fforde’s surreal hybrid mystery The Big Over Easy, Detective Jack Spratt of the Nursery Crimes Division in modern-day Reading, England, investigates the suspicious death of Humpty Dumpty, uncovering a web of financial intrigue and jealous lovers. Accompanied by his assistant Mary Mary, Jack navigates a whimsical yet dangerous world of nursery rhyme characters, aliens, and Greek deities.