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But he has patience, persistence, a sense of humor, and a sharp understanding of human nature. He also has a keen assistant in seventeen-year-old Jason Beard, pitcher for the Midbury baseball team and amateur detective, who takes notes and acts as Watson to Charleston's Holmes. In the violent and surprising finale, young Jase plays a saving hand.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere is humor in these pages, even earthy hilarity, but at no cost to mystery and suspense. Against the western background he knows so well, A. B. 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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