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The Third Pig detective agency : the complete casebook

The collected cases of Detective Harry Pigg, the only surviving brother from the Big Bad Wolf Attacks. With bills to pay, the hardboiled detective must field clients such as Aladdin, Mrs. Father Christmas, and Little Miss Muffet.

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  • "When hardboiled detective Harry Pigg is hired to track down a missing lamp for a dodgy local businessman named Aladdin, Harry becomes embroiled in a much larger case, encountering various fairy tale characters along the way."
  • "Harry Pigg, the third pig from the classic tale and a private investigator, is hired to find a missing lamp for Aladdin, a local businessman, but nothing proves to be as simple as Pigg anticipates."
  • "The collected hard-boiled cases of nursery rhyme-noir with Detective Harry Pigg. 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, Father Christmas's Wife 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!"
  • "The collected cases of Detective Harry Pigg, the only surviving brother from the Big Bad Wolf Attacks. With bills to pay, the hardboiled detective must field clients such as Aladdin, Mrs. Father Christmas, and Little Miss Muffet."@en
  • ""When Harry is hired to track down a missing lamp for a dodgy local businessman named Aladdin he becomes embroiled in a much larger case. He is beaten up, double crossed, chased across town and beaten up some more before he finally works out what the hell is going on. And it isn't what he expected. Not at all"--Cover, p. [4]."@en

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  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Juvenile works"@en
  • "Juvenile works"
  • "Children's stories"@en
  • "Children's stories"
  • "Mystery fiction"
  • "Characters in literature"
  • "Detective and mystery stories"@en
  • "Detective and mystery stories"
  • "Fiction"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Young adult fiction"
  • "Fairy tales"

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  • "Third Pig Detective Agency : The Complete Casebook, The"
  • "The Third Pig detective agency : the complete casebook"@en
  • "The third pig detective agency"
  • "The Third Pig Detective Agency"
  • "The Third Pig Detective Agency"@en

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