Jack Spratt
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For the nursery rhyme, see Jack Sprat.
Jack Spratt is the protagonist in a series of alternate history science fiction fantasy novels by Jasper Fforde. He is likely intended to be the same character from the English nursery rhyme.
Spratt is a Detective Inspector with the Reading, Berkshire Nursery Crimes Division, with his assistant Sergeant Mary Mary (another nursery rhyme character). Spratt and Mary were originally introduced into the alternate Fforde universe in the Thursday Next novel The Well of Lost Plots (2003) before taking over their own "Nursery Crimes" series:
