Custom deserialisation of JSON field using Jackson

I'm using Jackson to deserialize some JSON and I've run into some trouble while trying to use a custom deserializer for one of the fields.

class MyClass
{
    private static class SpecialPropertyDeserializer extends JsonDeserializer<SpecialProperty>
    {
        @Override
        public SpecialProperty deserialize(JsonParser jsonParser,
                                           DeserializationContext deserializationContext) throws IOException, JsonProcessingException
        {
            // do some custom deserialisation
        }
    }

    private static class SpecialProperty
    {
        private String m_foo;

        private String m_bar;

        @JsonCreator
        SpecialProperty(@JsonProperty("foo") String foo,
                        @JsonProperty("bar") String bar)
        {
            m_foo = foo;
            m_bar = bar;
        }
    }

    private String m_identifier;

    private String m_version;

    @JsonDeserialize(using = SpecialPropertyDeseializer.class)
    private SpecialProperty m_specialProperty;

    @JsonCreator
    MyClass(@JsonProperty("identifier") String identifier,
            @JsonProperty("version") String version,
            @JsonProperty("specialProperty") SpecialProperty specialProperty)
    {
        m_identifier = identifier;
        m_version = version;
        m_specialProperty = specialProperty;
    }
}

and this is the JSON I want to deserialize:

{
    "identifier" : "some-id",
    "version"    : "1.7",
    "specialProperty"    : {
        "foo" : "str1",
        "bar" : "str2"
    },
}

I invoke the mapper as follows:

ObjectMapper objectMapper = new ObjectMapper();
objectMapper.configure(DeserializationFeature.FAIL_ON_UNKNOWN_PROPERTIES, true);   
return objectMapper.readValue(input, MyClass.class);

I've observed the following behaviour:

1. Without a special property it all works fine - i.e. remove all references to SpecialProperty from the code and the JSON.
2. If I include SpecialProperty in the JSON but remove the custom deserializer for it then it also works fine. The ctor for SpecialProperty is called.
3. With the custom deserializer it doesn't work. The ctor for SpecialProperty is called but the custom deserializer is not.

What am I doing wrong?