The Third Pig Detective Agency: The Complete Casebook
Bob Burke
The collected hard-boiled cases of nursery rhyme-noir with Detective Harry Pigg.Contains The Third Pig Detective, The Ho Ho Ho Mystery and The Curds and Whey Mystery.Harry Pigg, the only surviving brother from the Big Bad Wolf attacks, has set up business as a private detective in Grimmtown, only things aren't going too well. Down on his luck, with bills to pay and no clients in sight the outlook is poor.But when your next customers are going to include local businessman Aladdin, the wife of Father Christmas and Little Miss Muffet, what follows is a hard-boiled casebook of nursery rhyme-noir – full of fairy tale villains, plenty of red herrings, a few close shaves, a couple of punch ups and some very clever twists indeed.Funny, thrilling and always entertaining, Harry Pigg is an old breed of hero for a new generation.The Third Pig Detective Agency series has been acclaimed by readers, crime writers and prize judging panels alike. If you haven’t discovered what makes Harry Pigg so popular then now is the time!
BOB BURKE
The Third PigDetective Agency:The Complete Casebook
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The Friday Project
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This collected edition first published in Great Britain by The Friday Project in 2015
The Third Pig Detective Agency first published in 2009
The Ho Ho Ho Mystery first published in 2010
The Curds and Whey Mystery first published in 2012
Copyright © Bob Burke 2015
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Dedication (#u149d76e5-f974-51e6-a365-7daee986862c)
To Gem, for believing
Contents
Cover (#ua61a41ef-f76b-58a6-9ed1-61a9fa416ed5)
Title Page (#u45310ee9-231d-5933-8f59-71bff8dc237e)
Copyright
Dedication
The Third Pig Detective Agency
The Ho Ho Ho Mystery
The Curds and Whey Mystery
About the Publisher
THE THIRD PIG DETECTIVE AGENCY (#u149d76e5-f974-51e6-a365-7daee986862c)
Contents
1. A New Client
2. Come Blow Your Horn
3. On the Case
4. It’s Off to Work We Go!
5. If You Go Down to the Woods Today
6. The Gift of the Gab
7. In the White Room
8. A Brief Interlude in which Harry Doesn’t Get Threatened or Beaten up by Anyone
9. Flushed with Success
10. Anyone for Pizza?
11. I Have a Cunning Plan!
12. A Gripping Finale
13. Exposition, Basili
Acknowledgements
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