Leroy Brown became Encyclopedia Brown when his father, the local police chief in fictional Idaville, saw that his son knew as much as an encyclopedia. Each story starts out with Encyclopedia Brown solving a case at the dinner table using logic and deductive reasoning. In each case Encyclopedia Brown sits at the dinner table, closes his eyes and then asks his father one great question that leads them to the trick they need to know.
Encyclopedia sets up his own detective agency and solves cases for a quarter.
If you liked Donald Sobol's other book series, Two-Minute Mysteries, you will love these mysteries too.
Read carefully and you can discover the thing that doesn't seem right, the thing that doesn't make sense, the thing that doesn't fit in...maybe even before Encyclopedia Brown solves the case. You can always look in the "Answers" section in the back of the book to see where the clues were.
72 pages 978-0590445757 Ages 8-11.
Other titles in the series:
Encyclopedia Brown, Boy Detective
Encyclopedia Brown and the Case of the Secret Pitch
Encyclopedia Brown Finds the Clues
Encyclopedia Brown Gets His Man
Encyclopedia Brown Solves Them All
Encyclopedia Brown Keeps the Peace
Encyclopedia Brown Saves the Day
Encyclopedia Brown Tracks Them Down
Encyclopedia Brown Shows the Way
Encyclopedia Brown Takes the Case
Encyclopedia Brown Lends a Hand
Encyclopedia Brown and the Case of the Dead Eagles
Encyclopedia Brown and the Case of the Midnight Visitor
Encyclopedia Brown Sets the Pace
Encyclopedia Brown Takes the Cake
Encyclopedia Brown and the Case of the Mysterious Handprint
Encyclopedia Brown and the Case of the Treasure Hunt
Encyclopedia Brown and the Case of the Disgusting Sneakers
Encyclopedia Brown and the Case of the Two Spies
Encyclopedia Brown and the Case of Pablo’s Nose
Encyclopedia Brown and the Case of the Sleeping Dog
Encyclopedia Brown and the Case of the Slippery Salamander
Encyclopedia Brown and the Case of the Jumping Frogs
Encyclopedia Brown Cracks the Case
Encyclopedia Brown, Super Sleuth
