The Big over Easy

About this book

Its Easter in Reading -- a bad time for eggs -- and no one can remember the last sunny day. Humpty Dumpty well-known nursery favourite large egg ex-convict and former millionaire philanthropist is found shattered beneath a wall in a shabby area of town. Following the pathologists careful reconstruction of Humptys shell Detective Inspector Jack Spratt and his Sergeant Mary Mary are soon grappling with a sinister plot involving cross-border money laundering the illegal Bearnaise sauce market corporate politics and the cut and thrust world of international Chiropody. As Jack and Mary stumble around the streets of Reading in Jacks Lime Green Austin Allegro the clues pile up but Jack has his own problems to deal with. And on top of everything else the JellyMan is coming to town...