The Fourth Bear (Signed First Edition, Third Pritning)

Fforde, Jasper

ISBN 10: 0340835710 / ISBN 13: 9780340835715

Published by Hodder & Staughton, London, 2006

About this Item

8vo., 383(3)pp. Beautiful First Edition, Third Printing with"3" on copyright page. Square, tight and clean throughout with little or no wear. Equally attractive unclipped dust-jacket, (£12.99), is fresh and bright with no creasing, chipping or tears. Signed by the author on the title page. A gorgeous collectable copy.

Seller Inventory # 014309

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Fourth Bear (Signed First Edition, Third Pritning)
• Publisher: Hodder & Staughton, London
• Publication Date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0340835710
• ISBN 13: 9780340835715
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Signed/Inscribed
  • Mystery/Suspense/Crime Drama

About this title

Synopsis

The Gingerbreadman - psychopath, sadist, convicted murderer and cake/biscuit - is loose in the streets of Reading.

It isn't Jack Spratt's case. Despite the success of the Humpty Dumpty investigation, the well-publicised failure to prevent Red Riding Hood and her Gran from being eaten once again plunges the Nursery Crime Division into controversy.

Enforced non-involvement with the Gingerbreadman hunt looks to be frustrating until a chance encounter at the oddly familiar Deja-Vu Club leads them onto the hunt for missing journalist Henrietta "Goldy" Hatchett, star reporter for "The Daily Toad".

The last witnesses to see her alive were The Three Bears, comfortably living out a life of rural solitude in Andersen's wood. But all is not what it seems. Are the unexplained explosions around the globe somehow related to missing nuclear scientist Angus McGuffin? Is cucumber growing really that dangerous? Why are National Security involved?

But most important of all: how could the bears' porridge be at such disparate temperatures when they were poured at the same time?

About the Author

Jasper Fforde traded a varied career in the film industry for staring vacantly out of the window and arranging words on a page. He lives and writes in Wales. The Eyre Affair was his first novel in the bestselling "Thursday Next" series. He is also the author of the "Nursery Crime" series.