The Case of the Deadly Desperados / Caroline Lawrence / 279 pages

This book was a most delightful surprise!  I checked it out because my husband likes westerns and we were going on a long auto trip and love to listen to audio book as we ride.  Imagine, if you will, a twelve year old half-blood on the run from a gang of ruthless desperados who have killed his foster parents and are determined to obtain a deed from him and are willing to kill him to get it.  P. K. Pinkerton has a thorn.  He suffers from an inability to read the expressions of other or express emotions with own facial features.  (Perhaps Asperger's Syndrome?)  Mark Twain appears as a character uttering many of his own famous quotations.  This is an excellent peek at life in 1862 Virginia City, Nevada.