Its Easter in Reading -- a bad time for eggs -- & no one can remember the last sunny day. Humpty Dumpty well-known nursery favourite large egg ex-convict & former millionaire philanthropist is found shattered beneath a wall in a shabby area of town. Following the pathologists careful reconstruction of Humptys shell Detective Inspector Jack Spratt & his Sergeant Mary Mary are soon grappling with a sinister plot involving cross-border money laundering the illegal Bearnaise sauce market corporate politics & the cut & thrust world of international Chiropody. As Jack & Mary stumble around the streets of Reading in Jacks Lime Green Austin Allegro the clues pile up but Jack has his own problems to deal with. & on top of everything else the Jelly Man is coming to town...