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# The Fourth Bear: A Nursery Crime

**Brand:** jasper ffordesimon vancepenguin audio
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- **What is this?** The Fourth Bear: A Nursery Crime by jasper ffordesimon vancepenguin audio
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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Hold onto your porridge!
  

*by B***A on Reviewed in the United States on July 30, 2024*

Excellent, imaginative, so funny!👍👍❤️if you’re already a J Fforde fan, this will add to your collection nicely. Highly recommend and hope there’s another one soon.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 4.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Fforde returns to fforme
  

*by S***S on Reviewed in the United States on September 24, 2006*

If you have not encountered Fforde before, run (do not walk) to the links above and pick up The Eyre Affair. A more erudite, funny, accessible, fun read can hardly be imagined. Eyre was the first in a series of books about his literary detective Thursday Next. The later Thursday books were good but not as great as Eyre, and were followed by The Big Over Easy, first of the Nursery Crime series. Over Easy was actually a much earlier book, one that Fforde apparently returned to after the first few Thursday Next books. It reads as if he did a partial rewrite, and the end result was pretty uneven.I'm very happy to say that The Fourth Bear is very good - certainly better than Over Easy, and better than the later Thursday Next tales.Spoiler-free plot synopsis: Police detective Jack Spratt is head of the Nursery Crimes division, specializing in crimes related to nursery-rhyme and childrens story characters. It seems that the famous homicidal maniac The Gingerbread Man has escaped from the asylum and has resumed his serial killer spree of years before. In the meantime, investigative reporter Golilocks has disappeared while investigating some cucumbers which seem to be exploding with great violence, and all the local bears have good alibis.Injecting the characters of nursery rhyme and childrens stories into the real world gives Fforde the opportunity for some great jokes and situations, and he takes full and unfettered advantage of the situation to tell a very funny story. I learned things I never knew before about the risks of thumb-sucking, bear social structure, alien physiology, and an entirely new set of tongue-twisting rhymes that spin off of Peter Pipers pickles. Great fun all around, and the kind of thing that Fforde does better than almost anybody.But what sets this book a step up for Fforde is the strength of the plot. This is a real and functional mystery, complete with red herrings, maguffins, nice subtleties, office politics, both venal and honest politicians, and a resolution that works perfectly with the rest of the story. If you were to strip it of its fantastic and humorous elements (and you could! (though you shouldn't)) there would still be an interesting mystery with interesting characters.And really, you can't ask for much more than that.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    What is Not to Like?
  

*by J***R on Reviewed in the United States on September 6, 2018*

The Fourth Bear is subtitled A Nursery Crime, and, yes, there are many word plays and allusions throughout this book. For anyone growing up with fairy tales and nursery rhymes, this is fun.Our main character is Jack Spratt—yes, that Jack Sprat whose first wife died of complications from obesity. Now he is trying to live a normal human life—hence, the new spelling of his name—rather than his previous life as a PDR, Person of Dubious Reality.Any fan of detective stories knows that the good detective picks up on anomalies—like Sherlock Holmes noting that the dog did not bark. So it is with the story of the Three Bears. If the bears were having a meal together, the porridges would have all been cooked in one pot and served at the same time. The three bowls should have all been the same temperature, or nearly so. Why was Papa’s too hot, Mama’s too cold, and Baby’s in between? And why was Goldilocks murdered?We get appearances from the Quangle Wangle, the Gingerbread Man (a serial criminal who taunts the police with “You can’t catch me”), Dorian Grey (a used car salesman with an unusual guarantee), Madeleine Usher, a space alien, some scientists from Laputa, and others too numerous to mention. This book is a hoot.

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