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  The Fourth Bear (Nursery Crime) (Paperback) By (author) Jasper Fforde

  

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  Short Description for The Fourth BearIn the second adventure by the bestselling author of the Thursday Next novels, "nursery crime" characters Jack Spratt and Mary Mary take on their most dangerous case so far, as a murderous cookie (The Gingerbread Man) menaces the streets of Reading.
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  • Publisher: Penguin Books
  • Published: 01 August 2007
  • Format: Paperback 378 pages
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  • Categories: Contemporary Fiction | Crime | Myth & Legend Told As Fiction
  • ISBN 13: 9780143038924 ISBN 10: 0143038923
  • Sales rank: 119,064

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Full description for The Fourth Bear

• The inimitable Jasper Fforde gives readers another delightful mash-up of detective fiction and nursery rhyme, returning to those mean streets where no character is innocent. The Gingerbreadman--sadist, psychopath, cookie--is on the loose in Reading, but that's not who Detective Jack Spratt and Sergeant Mary Mary are after. Instead, they've been demoted to searching for missing journalist "Goldy" Hatchett. The last witnesses to see her alive were the reclusive Three Bears, and right away Spratt senses something furry--uh, "funny"--about their story, starting with the porridge. "The Fourth Bear" is a delirious new romp from our most irrepressible fabulist.