Wild Pitch
by Jr A. B. Guthrie
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- Condition
- Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0395154820
- ISBN 13
- 9780395154823
- Seller
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Martinez, California, United States
Item Price
$135.00$121.50
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About This Item
* Inscribed and SIGNED by author on dedication page.
* Book cover like new, slight rubbing - pages clean, bright and unmarked spine solid and undamaged.
* Jacket near new, modest edge wear; protected in fresh mylar cover.
* Proceeds benefit Friends of the Pleasant Hill Library.
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After Buster Hogue is shot at the annual town picnic, plenty of motives appear, but no clues point to the sniper. A lot of people had reason to dislike Hogue or even to wish him dead because of personal and unhappy experience, but grudges donâ¬"t count in the absence of evidence. Chick Charleston, the small-town Montana sheriff, has had no experience with this kind of case, the county not having been inclined to homicidal endeavors. Neither does his county office have the gadgets to ferret out the criminal. 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 Charlestonâ¬"s Holmes. In the violent and surprising finale, young Jase plays a saving hand. There 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.
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- Bookseller
- R&R Better Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- $FOLBIB048
- Title
- Wild Pitch
- Author
- Jr A. B. Guthrie
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0395154820
- ISBN 13
- 9780395154823
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1973
- Bookseller catalogs
- Friends of the LIbrary; Signed Books;
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