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The Fourth Bear (Nursery Crime, Bk 2)
The Fourth Bear - Nursery Crime, Bk 2
Author: Jasper Fforde
The Gingerbreadman: Psychopath, sadist, genius, convicted murderer and biscuit is loose in the streets of Reading. It isn't Jack Spratt's case. He and Mary Mary have been reassigned due to falling levels of nursery crime, and The NCD is once more in jeopardy. That is, until a chance encounter during the Armitage Shanks literary awards at the odd...  more »
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ISBN-13: 9780143038924
ISBN-10: 0143038923
Publication Date: 7/31/2007
Pages: 400
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  • Currently 3.9/5 Stars.
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3.9 stars, based on 96 ratings
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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reviewed The Fourth Bear (Nursery Crime, Bk 2) on + 3 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 2
A book about Goldilocks, giant cucumbers, and a psychopathic Gingerbreadman? The second book in the nursery crimes series, Jack Spratt and the Nursery Crime Division are at it again, solving crimes by unusual characters in Reading. This time the Gingerbreadman has escaped St Cerebellums and is on the loose while Goldilocks has gone missing. Fforde does a great job of creating a realistically unrealistic world were bears talk and aliens speak in binary.
reviewed The Fourth Bear (Nursery Crime, Bk 2) on + 21 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 1
Love, love, loved this!
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Another great chapter in a fantastic series.
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Silly fun. The story unfolds at a brisk pace, though read carefully because otherwise you may skim over a line that will make you chuckle.
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thoroughly enjoyed this series and can't wait for another adventure of the nursery crimes gang.
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My favorite Fforde so far! Detective Jack Spratt and Sergeant Mary Mary search for missing journalist Henrietta "Goldy" Hatchett. The last witnesses to see her alive were the reclusive three bears, and Jack thinks something's odd about their story. How could that porridge be too hot, too cold, AND just right if it was poured at the same time? Was there a fourth bear?


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