Find Request It
Cover Image

Encyclopedia Brown finds the clues

Show other versions (1)

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 a...

Full description

Saved in:
Main Author: Sobol, Donald J., 1924-2021
Other Authors: Steinbruner, Greg
Format: Audiobooks Audiobook (CD)
Language:English
Published: Prince Frederick, Md. : Recorded Books Producations, 2007.
Subjects:
Brown, Encyclopedia (Fictitious character) > Juvenile fiction.
Children's audiobooks.
Mystery fiction > Juvenile.
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
Summary: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.
Item Description:"An unabridged performance."
Compact disc.
Physical Description:2 sound discs (1 hr., 30 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Audience:Ages 8 and up.
ISBN:9781428172210
1428172211
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.

(Bowker Author Biography)

Similar Items