The Fourth Bear (Nursery Crime, #2)

by Jasper Fforde

“Prejudice is a product of ignorance that hides behind barriers of tradition,

“From my experience of government departments,” said Jack, “they couldn’t order the right size of staples, let alone succeed in anything as bizarrely complex as a murder and then subsequent cover-up.” “Yes,” agreed Parks sulkily, “it’s where that particular mainstay of conspiracy theory falls down. I hate to admit it, but governmental deviousness is usually better explained by incompetence, vanity and the need to protect one’s job at all costs.