Reading progress update: I've read 14%.

Death Mask (The Jocelyn O'Roarke Mysteries) - Jane Dentinger

They had eight pages of heavy exposition to get through, and they got through it as if they were on a government fart-finding mission.

The quote above is in reference to a pair of nervous actors in an off-Broadway play getting through their lines in their first scene of opening night. Bolding mine. I’d like the opinions of others on whether “fart-finding” is a typo or deliberate. XD