Encyclopedia Brown Gets His Man

leroy Brown, Aka Encyclopedia Brown, Is Idaville Neighborhood's Ten-year-old Star Detective. With An Uncanny Knack For Trivia, He Solves Mysteries For The Neighborhood Kids Through His Own Detective Agency. But His Dad Also Happens To Be The Chief Of The Idaville Police Department, And Every Night Around The Dinner Table, Encyclopedia Helps Him Solve His Most Baffling Crimes. And With Ten Confounding Mysteries In Each Book, Not Only Does Encyclopedia Have A Chance To Solve Them, But The Reader Is Given All The Clues As Well. Interactive And Chock Full Of Interesting Bits Of Information—it's Classic Encyclopedia Brown!

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criminals Have It Rough In Idaville Thanks To Leroy Brown, Better Known As Encyclopedia Brown. The Ten-year-old Detective Whiz And Son Of Idaville's Police Chief Uses His Remarkable Memory And Eye For Detail To Help Solve The Toughest Cases Around. When Not Helping His Father, He And Partner Sally Kimball Safeguard The Neighborhood With Their Detective Agency (no Case Too Small). Each Of The Ten Short Chapters Is A Separate Case In Which Encyclopedia Goes Head-to-head With A Different Criminal. Among This Book's Collection Of Miscreants Are A Marble Thief, A Swindler, And A Cheat. Like A Twentieth-century Sherlock Holmes, Encyclopedia Examines The Scene Of The Crime, Talks To The Involved Parties, And Watches Closely For Clues. He Then Makes Pronouncements Of Guilt, And Readers Are Invited To Match Wits With The Detective By Figuring Out How He Came To His Conclusion, After Which They Can Check The Detailed Answer Provided At The End Of The Book. Although A Bit Dated—how Many Kids Smoke Coffee In A Homemade Pipe These Days? —this Reissue Of A Well-loved Series Will Likely Be Just As Popular With Modern Mystery Fans As It Was With The Original Readers. Reviewer: Heather Christensen