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Leroy Brown, aka Encyclopedia Brown, is Idaville's ten-year-old star detective. With an uncanny knack for trivia, he solves mysteries for the neighborhood kids through his own detective agency.Tags
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Mixed bag as usual. Some didn't show us everything the detective saw. Some required knowledge of trivia that I don't know, and that a kid isn't likely too, either. Otoh, it's a fun series and I will both read all I can find, and recommend them to age 9 up.
My favorite mystery solving stories, although I was never able to guess correctly when I was young. I don't know if this kind of short, figure it out mystery story appeals to today's young person, but I sure loved Encyclopedia and used to have all of the books. Thanks, Mr. Sobol, for stimualting my investigative skills!
Encyclopedia Brown is confronted with ten new cases. Solutions are given in the back of the book.
An unexpected midnight quest...
A holdup at the First City Bank...
A stolen tennis racket...
Gerbils who paint in pairs...
and fifty mosquitoes netted at the Oddball Olympics!
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!
A holdup at the First City Bank...
A stolen tennis racket...
Gerbils who paint in pairs...
and fifty mosquitoes netted at the Oddball Olympics!
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!
Ten tough new cases for the Brown Detective Agency, such as a holdup at the First City Bank and a stolen tennis racket.
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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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- Encyclopedia Brown and the Case of the Midnight Visitor
- Original title
- Encyclopedia Brown and the Case of the Midnight Visitor
- Original publication date
- 1977
- People/Characters
- Encyclopedia Brown
- Dedication
- For
Lenore and Jerry Gundersheimer - First words
- Now there are some people in the United States who had never heard of Idaville. But they were not policemen.
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- English
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- ISBNs
- 26
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