Riddle of the Rat-Catching Kid-Snatcher

There - up on that skateboard - it's a bagel! It's a breakfast burrito!
It's Humpty Dumpty Jr., Hardboiled Detective!
Another egg-brained adventure that's sure to crack you up!
More puns than you can shake your whisk at!
"The puns and allusions come at a rapid clip to open this junior take on the detective genre, before it settles into a clever little whodunit... Dumpty narrates the story in a tough-guy staccato prose that will delight readers new to the genre, but underneath his hard shell lies the reluctantly warm heart that makes such detectives good guys in the end. A cast of offbeat, nursery rhyme-esque characters...round out the tale, as well as zany illustrations that showcase Dumpty's gruff persona and the squalid streets of the city he calls home."
-Booklist
The egg-straordinary adventures of Humpty and Rat continue!

Hamelin Town is a quiet, sleepy little town. Unfortunately it is about to be invaded by the worst army in the known universe - paparazzi! But why have they come to this quaint hamlet called Hamelin? Because it is the sight of one of the strangest crimes of all time: the entire town's children have been kidnapped! That's right, every single child in Hamelin Town was kidnapped at exactly the same time. But how could that possibly happen?

And why did everyone in town report hearing the sound of a flute? To solve this dastardly deed the town calls Humpty and Rat to find all the lost children and return them before they are completely consumed by the army of journalists, gossipers, and paparazzi (oh my!).

Will Humpty find out who, eggsactly, stole the kids and why? Will the villain make a great eggscape with all the kids? How many more eggpuns could we possibly have left? All these questions answered (and more) in the next incredible installment of Humpty Dumpty Jr., Hardboiled Detective!