Hard Boiled: A Nursery Crime (Ages 7-17)

Being a hard-boiled detective in the Nursery Rhyme Unit isn’t all it’s cracked up to be, and it’s hardly ever sunny side up! So when Humpty Dumpty comes in scrambled and shell-shocked from a fall, it’s up to a team of punny detectives to interview all the unusual suspects and wacky witnesses. From five little monkeys, five Jacks and a Jill, a fiddling cat, and a vowel-loving farmer and his barnyard friends, to a screaming teapot, three blind mice, three mitten-less kittens, an old woman in a shoe, and more, it seems everyone is scrambling to prove their innocence. This investigation won’t be over easy, that much is certain, but with the egg-timer ticking, these detectives need to crack the case wide open before they end up with egg on their face! Can Detective Bacon and his team figure out whodunit, or will it turn out that Humpty Dumpty is just a practical yolk-er all along?