Mr. Fenton

About the Book

The real-life character of Mr. Fenton was originally on our radio broadcast that spanned four years on KLKY radio out of Prescott Valley, Arizona. The character Fenton was based on a real-life and very smart raven. Mr. Fenton is a detective fiction story that puts you in the unusual world of a great and most unusual detective and on some of his investigations.

About the Author

Chester Thompson was born on January the 18th 1945 in Amarillo Texas on a small poultry ranch. His love a mystery and detective stories started when he was in 3rd grade and was allowed to help his father lace leather belts for women’s purses. His father designed and made ladies purses many of them were western style designed tooled purses. When they worked on them his father would have the radio on and they listened, to old radio broadcast of Mr. And Mrs. North, the Shadow Knows, the Lone Ranger and many others. Then in 1959 in Phoenix Arizona Chester read for the first time the book Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The stories were also placed on the television with Basil Rathbone playing Sherlock. Chester was also an avid reader of Science, Science fiction as well as Mystery and detective books from the branch of the Maricopa County public library in his neighborhood. He believes that children should be encouraged to read books as much as possible.