Characters in "The Big Over Easy"
- Detective Inspector Jack Spratt: head of the Nursery Crime Division and also a nursery rhyme character himself. His name is a reference to the Jack Sprat rhyme but the character also fulfils the role of Jack in Jack and the Beanstalk and Jack the Giant Killer.
- Sergeant Mary Mary: based upon the rhyme Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary.
- Constable Baker: Jack's helper and part of the Nursery Crime Division. He, Jack's former sergeant Alan Butcher and Gretel were used to make Butcher, Baker and Kandlstyck-Maeker (three men in a tub).
- Constable Ashley: An alien that can stick to walls and speaks binary code.
- Gretel Kandlestyck-Maeker: Sister of Hansel and forensic scientist to the Nursery crime Division. She is used in the rhyme three men in a tub (see above).
- Superintendent Briggs: Jack's boss, who plays the trombone and tried to change his name to "become more interesting."
- Friedland Chymes: The Divisions' most intelligent of detectives, who can solve cases through the tiniest of clues. Later, however, he is exposed as a fraud by Jack.
- William Winkie: The insomniac neighbour of Humpty Dumpty. He blackmailed the killer and was killed.
- Humpty Dumpty: A giant egg. He had many marriages and divorces. He was murdered in his garden.
- Mrs.Hubbard: The owner of the boarding house where Humpty Dumpty lived.
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