The Fourth Bear (Nursery Crime, #2)

by Jasper Fforde

“The ‘right to arm bears’ controversy?”

“Humans rely on a pattern of charged neurons to build up a picture that is revived by association. If the memory is not recalled now and again, it fades—if it is retained at all.

“It’s a potential missing-persons inquiry.” “Do you know where she is?” “No, that’s what the ‘missing’ in ‘missing persons’ means.”

“This is what we do. We get suspended, battered, beaten and almost arrested. But the bottom line is we hunt for the truth and bring justice to the nursery world. No matter what.”

People didn’t blow up those cucumbers. Those cucumbers blew up the people.

It was time to start putting his plan into action. Then he remembered: He didn’t have one.