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    The Third Pig Detective Agency

    By Bob Burke

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateJun 12, 2009
    ISBN9780007333141
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    The Third Pig Detective Agency
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    Bob Burke

    Bob is the award-winning author of The Third Pig Detective Agency series. He lives in County Limerick with his wife and three children.

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    • 2/5
      A middling pastiche of the hard boiled detective genre written for kids of early teen years. Not as funny as it could or should be. An okay read that doesn’t compel me to read more of the series.
    • 3/5
      Fun and entertaining read.
    • 4/5
      The notion of a pig detective is as far as I am aware a unique one. Bob Burke has invented a fairy tale world with a new spin on Aladdin and Jack Horner, Grumpy the dwarf and one of the Billy Goats Gruff. A light fun read ,similar in many ways to the books of Jasper Fforde and which will neither tax your brain nor I suspect stay long in your memory. No outright laughs,but plenty of wry grins.
    • 3/5
      I saw this by chance on the Kindle store, bought it for 99p, and had it finished in less than an hour. I did think it a bit reminiscent of Jasper Fforde, and the humour was nothing new, and it reminded me of Malcolm Pryce a bit, too... But it was fun. It never quite raised a chuckle, but there was perhaps a knowing smile or two, and while I figured it out in advance, I thought it was a bit clever.

      The basic idea is the same as Fforde's Nursery Crimes: a fairytale detective, in this case the third little pig. Knowing fairytales serves you well, in figuring out the plot and catching the jokes.

      If you're looking for something fun, cheap and undemanding for your Kindle, you could do a lot worse. I have a four hour car journey ahead of me, as I type, and I think I'm going to get the sequel to keep me entertained without too much attention needed. It's only 50p, after all.
    • 3/5
      Easy entertainment. If I were in the business of optioning properties I'd nab this series. It is from the UK and centers around fairytale characters. The third pig, you'll remember, is the one smart enough to build the strong brick house. He's also the detective hired to solve mysteries that involve Aladdin's lamp, orcs, elves, and the Wicked Witch of the West. An animated HBO series would be perfect!
    • 3/5
      The third pig-- the one who built his house of bricks!-- uses his fame in defeating the wolf to start his own detective agency. But then he's approached by Aladdin, the richest man in Grimmtown, and the search for his missing lamp becomes quite a quest. Harry Pigg is helped by Little Boy Blue, Jack Horner, and the Seven Dwarves, to name a few. And Edna, the Witch of the West, is involved. This book is such fun and I'm looking forward to the sequel.