Encyclopedia Brown Strikes Again

***Fifth-grader "Encyclopedia" Leroy Brown solves ten mysteries and, by putting the solutions at the back of the book, challenges the reader to do the same.*** 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!*** “I loved Encyclopedia Brown as a kid.”—Junot Diaz, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao***--Goodreads***

First sentence: Idaville looked like any other town of its size-from the outside.

Year

1976

Language

English

Series

America's Sherlock Holmes in sneakers -- #02

Publisher

Bantam Books

Editions

24

Pages

86

ISBN

9780553151015

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