Jasper Fforde
Jack Spratt and Mary Mary return in their second adventure from the inimitable Jasper Fforde, , Five years ago, Viking introduced Jasper Fforde and his upsidedown, inside-out literary crime masterpieces. And as they move from Thursday Next to Jack Sprattâ€™s Nursery Crimes, his audience is insatiable and growing. Now, with ,The Fourth Bear,, Jack Spratt and Mary Mary take on their most dangerous case so far as a murderous cookie stalks the streets of Reading. , The Gingerbreadmanâ€”psychopath, sadist, genius, and killerâ€”is on the loose. But it isnâ€™t Jack Sprattâ€™s case. He and Mary Mary have been demoted to Missing Persons following Jackâ€™s poor judgment involving the poisoning of Mr. Bun the baker. Missing Persons looks like a boring assignment until a chance encounter leads them into the hunt for missing journalist Henrietta â€œGoldyâ€ Hatchett, star reporter for ,The Daily Mole,. Last to see her alive? The Three Bears, comfortably living out a life of rural solitude in Andersenâ€™s wood. , But all is not what it seems. How could the bearsâ€™ porridge be at such disparate temperatures when they were poured at the same time? Why did Mr. and Mrs. Bear sleep in separate beds? Was there a fourth bear? And if there was, who was he, and why did he try to disguise Goldyâ€™s death as a freak accident? , Jack answers all these questions and a few others besides, rescues Mary Mary from almost certain death, and finally meets the Fourth Bear and the Gingerbreadman face-to-face.
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The Fourth Bear