Encyclopedia Brown Lends a Hand

by Donald J. Sobol

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The solutions to 10 mysteries solved by Leroy "Encyclopedia" Brown are given in a separate section challenging the reader to match wits with the 10-year-old mastermind of Idaville's war on crime.

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My cover not here, but I'm not surprised that this edition didn't sell more as it's just three kids in a department store stockroom. Good mysteries though... mostly solvable to all, especially if you've been paying attention in school, in life, and to when grandma talks about the 'old days' of petticoats, newspapers, and typewriters.

As always, recommended to age 9 up, as younger children just won't know enough about how the world works/ worked, and won't be able to access the joy of figuring out the puzzles... even if their nickname is "Wikipedia."

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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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Shortall, Leonard W. (Illustrator)

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Canonical title
Encyclopedia Brown Lends a Hand
Original title
Encyclopedia Brown Lends a Hand
Alternate titles
Encyclopedia Brown: The Case of the Exploding Plumbing and Other Mysteries
Original publication date
1974
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Also published as "The Case of the Exploding Plumbing"

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Fiction and Literature
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813.54Literature & rhetoricAmerican literature in EnglishAmerican fiction in English1900-19991945-1999
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PZ7 .S68524 .ELanguage and LiteratureFiction and juvenile belles lettresFiction and juvenile belles lettresJuvenile belles lettres
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