I finished this book a couple of weeks ago but I haven't had the time to write a review. It's the first book in Jasper Fforde's Nursery Crime books and it gets the series off to a great start. As you can probably assume from the title, the book concerns the murder of Humpty Dumpty and introduces us to the lead detective of the Nursery Crime division, Jack Spratt, and his assistant Mary Mary.
The book is full of literary in-jokes from nursery rhymes, Greek mythology to classic literature. On top of that it's a good mystery novel without all of that. My only complaint is that the story gets a bit ridiculous by the end. There's also too many false endings. Other than that it's a great read.
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When you publish a post you have previously saved as a draft, the computer will enter the post on the blog as of the time you started the draft, not the time you finished it.
I usually ctrl-A and ctrl-C all of the text from my edited post, delete the draft, and then ctrl-V the whole thing into a new entry, so it appears at the top of the blog page, like any other new post would. Otherwise, the post can be hard to find.
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