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Ten brief cases allow the reader to match wits with ten-year-old crime-buster, Encyclopedia Brown, as he locates stolen jewels, retrieves a stuffed tiger, and more. Solutions are included at the back of the book.

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Main Author: Sobol, Donald J., 1924-2021
Other Authors: Bernardin, James (Illustrator)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York, N.Y. : Dutton Children's Books, c2007.
Edition:1st ed.
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Mystery fiction > Juvenile.
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Summary:Ten brief cases allow the reader to match wits with ten-year-old crime-buster, Encyclopedia Brown, as he locates stolen jewels, retrieves a stuffed tiger, and more. Solutions are included at the back of the book.
Physical Description:90 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Awards:A Junior Library Guild selection
ISBN:0525479244 (hardcover) :
9780525479246 (hardcover) :
9780142411674
Author Notes: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 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.

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