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Encyclopedia Brown, brilliant fifth-grade amateur detective, solves ten crimes. The reader may match solutions with those at the end of the book.Tags
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Not only do these puzzles teach kids to be observant, to pay attention to details, but they teach them to lie better: don't add details that a detective can use to prove you're lying!
Mixed bag of puzzles. Some too easy, and some rely on logic that, arguably, has loopholes. But the one about Bearcat the boxer is excellent, and the one about the stolen carnival tickets is good, too... keep thinking on those before looking at the answer.
Mixed bag of puzzles. Some too easy, and some rely on logic that, arguably, has loopholes. But the one about Bearcat the boxer is excellent, and the one about the stolen carnival tickets is good, too... keep thinking on those before looking at the answer.
A ripped-off rattlesnake... A guard dog that has a nervous breakdown...A Tiger without a head... A pickpocket with a pet kangaroo... And a red-haired red herring!
These are just some of the ten brain-twisting mysteries that Encyclopedia Brown must solve by using his famous computerlike brain. Try to crack the cases along with him - the answers to all the mysteries are found in the back of the book.
These are just some of the ten brain-twisting mysteries that Encyclopedia Brown must solve by using his famous computerlike brain. Try to crack the cases along with him - the answers to all the mysteries are found in the back of the book.
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Donald J. Sobol was born in the Bronx, New York on October 4, 1924. During World War II, he served in the Army as a sergeant in a combat engineer battalion in the Pacific. He received a B.A. degree from Oberlin College. He worked as a copy boy and then a reporter at The New York Sun and The Long Island Daily Press. In 1959, he began writing a show more syndicated fiction column called Two-Minute Mysteries. He is the creator of the Encyclopedia Brown series. His first book, Encyclopedia Brown, Boy Detective, was published in 1963. During his lifetime, he wrote more than 80 books. In 1976, he won an Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America for the Encyclopedia Brown series. He died from gastric lymphoma on July 11, 2012 at the age of 87. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Canonical title
- Encyclopedia Brown Shows the Way
- Original publication date
- 1972
- Canonical DDC/MDS
- 813.54
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