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Encyclopedia Brown sets the pace

A stolen painting and a troubled bubblegum-blowing contest. Whenever there's a mystery to be solved, Encyclopedia Brown gets going. Idaville's favorite sleuth in sneakers is back with ten new cases to crack.

Main Author: Sobol, Donald J., 1924-2021.
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York : Scholastic Paperbacks, 1991.
Series: Encyclopedia Brown
Subjects:
Brown, Encyclopedia (Fictitious character) > Juvenile fiction.
Mystery fiction > Juvenile.
Summary: A stolen painting and a troubled bubblegum-blowing contest. Whenever there's a mystery to be solved, Encyclopedia Brown gets going. Idaville's favorite sleuth in sneakers is back with ten new cases to crack.
Physical Description: 89 pages
ISBN: 9780590445771
0590445774
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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