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  2. Jack Spratt (fictional detective) - Wikipedia

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    Jack Spratt is the protagonist in a series of alternate history science fiction fantasy novels by Jasper Fforde. He was named after the character from the English nursery rhyme. As revealed in The Big Over Easy, for example, he hates eating fat, and was once married to a woman who ate nothing else (hence, she died).

  3. Jasper Fforde - Wikipedia

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    Jasper Fforde (born 11 January 1961) [1] is an English novelist whose first novel, The Eyre Affair, was published in 2001.He is known mainly for his Thursday Next novels, but has also published two books in the loosely connected Nursery Crime series, two in the Shades of Grey series and four in The Last Dragonslayer series.

  4. Characters in the Thursday Next series - Wikipedia

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    The main character of a series of 1920s adventure stories for boys. An early Booksplorer, Bradshaw now works as an agent for JurisFiction (he is a former Bellman as well) and is considered to be one of their best operatives; his maps, while sometimes incomplete, are a most trusted resource for Bookworld explorers.

  5. Thursday Next - Wikipedia

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    Thursday Next is the protagonist in a series of comic fantasy, alternate history mystery novels by the British author Jasper Fforde.She was introduced for the first time in Fforde's first published novel, The Eyre Affair, released on 19 July 2001 by Hodder & Stoughton.

  6. The Eyre Affair - Wikipedia

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    The Eyre Affair is the debut novel by English author Jasper Fforde, published by Hodder and Stoughton in 2001. [1] It takes place in an alternative 1985, where literary detective Thursday Next pursues a master criminal through the world of Charlotte Brontë's 1847 novel Jane Eyre.

  7. The Fourth Bear - Wikipedia

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    The Fourth Bear is a mystery/fantasy novel by Jasper Fforde published in July 2006. It is Jasper Fforde's sixth novel, and the second in the Nursery Crimes series (also known as the Jack Spratt series). It continues the story of Detective Inspector Jack Spratt from The Big Over Easy.

  8. Jasper (given name) - Wikipedia

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    Jasper, a female character and villain on the Cartoon Network show Steven Universe; Jasper, original name of Tom Cat from MGM's Tom and Jerry cartoons; Jasper Batt, Jr., the main antagonist of the video game No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle; Jasper the Bear, a Canadian cartoon character

  9. Ghostly Trio - Wikipedia

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    In Casper's earlier appearances in Harvey's animated cartoons and comic books, the Ghostly Trio were depicted differently, although they were brothers. Similar to his later incarnation, Fatso was overweight and gluttonous (although, as ghosts were capable of eating in the early stories, this trait was not as odd as it later seemed). He was the ...