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Guthrie Jr. has created a very human and believable sleuth in Chick Charleston, and in Jason Beard a singularly engaging narrator, whose accounts of local characters such as Loose Lancaster, Doc Yak, and old Mrs. Jenkins are guaranteed to entertain the reader.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA. B. Guthrie Jr. (1901-91) was a historian and novelist whose 1949 book \u003cem\u003eThe Way West\u003c\/em\u003e won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. 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