The Big Over Easy is the latest comedy-mystery from Welsh author Jasper Fforde, best known for his popular Thursday Next series. Suspects are plentiful - Dumpty, an ex-convict, womanizer and former philanthropic millionaire, has made his share of enemies over the years - but bodies soon begin piling up as the case grows increasingly tangled. And in the Reading Police Department, where "true crime" magazines eat up the very best cases for an insatiable public, it's publish or die. Wolff, and a more published wing of the law enforcement machine is elbowing to get in on the case. Of course, the department is on the brink of ruin after failing to convict three little pigs for the premeditated murder of B. Mary Mary and the entire Nursery Crimes Division at his disposal. Someone shot minor baronet Humpty Stuvesant van Dumpty in the back as he sat pickling his innards on his favorite wall.ĭetective Inspector Jack Spratt is on the case, with Sgt. and her autopsy shows more than a cracked eggshell. The Reading medical examiner, on the other hand, is up to the task. You know the rest of the story, but let's be honest here - king's horses and men don't have the technical know-how to reconstruct the sticky fragments of a giant egg. “Humpty Dumpty” Original Lyrics First printed vesion:Ĭannot place Humpty dumpty as he was before.Rambles: Jasper Fforde, The Big Over Easy The last line was the only difference between it and the modern version: “Could not set Humpty Dumpty up again” “Humpty Dumpty” Lyrics Lyrics now:Īll the king’s horses and all the king’s menĬouldn’t put Humpty together again. Before that it was found in a manuscript of Mother Goose’s Melody, 1803.
The riddle was first published in Gammer Gurton’s Garland in 1810. Exactly like an egg, if such a clumsy person would fall down from a wall, this would be an irremediable thing.
In 17th century “humpty dumpty” was the name of a kind of brandy (source: Oxford English Dictionary) and the term was also used as a slang to describe a dull person. At its origins it was a riddle, and the egg was probably the riddle’s answer. Humpty Dumpty dates back to the early 19th century. Frank Baum, The Hollow Chocolate Bunnies of the Apocalypse by Robert Rankin, and the Jasper Fforde’s novels The Well of Lost Plots and The Big Over Easy. It also appears in literature works and other popular culture such as Through the Looking-Glass, by Lewis Carroll, Mother Goose in Prose by L. Usually represented by an egg, “Humpty Dumpty” is a famous character in an English nursery rhyme.
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