'Mr Cripp's last words were "Good heavens, it's full of holes!",' said Mary. 'Do you have any idea to what he was referring?'
'Most puzzling,' confessed the vicar. 'He might have been referring to anything - the greenhouse, his cucumber, the plot - anything.'
'The plot?' echoed Mary.
'I mean the vegetable plot,' he said hurriedly. 'A slip of the tongue. Vandals may have dug it up - holes, you know. Hm.'
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Jasper Fforde er fantastisk på denne måten - peikar alltid på fiksjonen i det han skriv, men likevel er det lett å bi riven med av den absurde handlinga.