The Case of the Missing Lettuce

Jack Long is, for me, a master of horticultural crime, and his latest work, "The Case of the Missing Lettuce" is up there with some of the classics of the genre. I'm talking about such masterpieces as Agatha Christie's "Miss Marple and the Mystery of the Misshapen Marrow", Polanowski's "One of our courgettes is missing", and of course Conan-Doyle's seminal "Sherlock Holmes and the stolen carrots".In "The Case of the Missing Lettuce" the reader is kept guessing as to the whereabouts of the crispy-leafed vegetable right up until the final page - and the tension that has built up over the previous 8 pages is almost unbearable. Was it Jones, the farmer? Was it Bill Binkley, the loveable greengrocer? Or was it Mrs. Smith, the sprightly, love-lorn pensioner? If you don't buy this marvellous book, those questions will haunt you for the rest of your life. Buy it now. Now!