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| The Fourth Bear (Nursery Crime Adventures 2) | 
 enlarge | Author: Jasper Fforde
Publisher: Hodder Paperbacks
Category: Book
List Price: £6.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  7 reviews
Sales Rank: 4708
Media: Paperback
Pages: 400
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 7.7 x 4.9 x 1
ISBN: 0340835737
EAN: 9780340835739
Publication Date: June 28, 2007
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 Fantastic! Read them all!!! July 27, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Brilliant! Brilliant! Brilliant! Just about the best writer alive. So funny, so clever and he can get away with anything absurd. Page 319 had me crying and laughing out loud in public.
On the up! May 13, 2008
When I read the first Nursery Crimes novel, The Big Over Easy, I was sorely disappointed. It was good, but the special spark that the Thursday Next novels had was just not there. So I approached this sequel with trepidation - however I need not have worried! This is a truly enjoyable novel - funny and exciting.
After the disappointment of the most recent Thursday Next novel, I may have to say that Fforde should stick to the Nursery Crimes series!
Simply fantastic November 18, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
It's quite simple: Jasper Fforde knows how to write well. That's it. All the quirky elements to his universe are secondary to his engaging and etertaining style. The fact that the universe measures up is a bonus.
I cannot wait for more from the NCD. The stories are so well crafted that it must be difficult to keep the standard high, but so far in this series, and the Thursday Next series, Fforde has not disappointed.
 Original November 1, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is the first book I have read by this author following a recommendation and I didn't really know what to expect. What I found was a great detective story with a lot of giggles along the way. The basic plot has been done before but never with these characters! The characters are nursery rhyme characters and I think this shows a great use of imagination by the author. My 9 year old brother picked up my book whilst I was only holiday and he couldn't believe it when I said that it was about the Gingerbread man being a mass murderer! When I had finished the book, he asked me what had happened and he seemed pleased with the end result. I think the background storylines are great with the alien policeman and the events that unfold when he brings a human home as his girlfriend to meet his parents. Also Punch and Judy living next door to Spratt works well. I would recommend this book and I now plan to read others by this author.
A Good Detective Novel lies within October 26, 2007
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
What many people seem to miss is that, below the bad puns, literary jokes and nursery rhyme nonsense lurks a good detective story with real characters. DI Spratt and DS Mary Mary are rapidly becoming as interesting to follow as DI Rebus and DS Siobhan Clarke. While a knowledge of Edward Lear will help you to work this one out, it's a well plotted murder/mystery story with plenty of smiles on the way. Fforde can be - as other reviewers have noted - occasionally too verbose and taken with his own cleverness, but not with this novel, which is in my view easily his best. Those who like their detective fiction with a dash of humour should enjoy it
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