The Fourth Bear * * * / * * * *

The Fourth Bear by Jasper Fforde
wonderful
the return of Detective Chief Inspector Jack Spratt and Detective Sergeant Mary Mary of the Nursery Crime Division following up their success in The Big Over Easy about the Humpty Dumpty inquiry, this time Goldilocks is missing, there is a mystery about cucumbers and who is the Fourth Bear? referencing Nursery rhymes (well duh), Blade Runner and the theories of Joseph Campbell amongst others
SPOILER AFTER CUT

I love the idea of confusing a threshold guardian by pointing out that they are a threshold guardian - genius + Mary Mary lives on a flying boat so is she in fact Thursday Next

excellent coming soon a new Thursday Next novel