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Encyclopedia Brown takes the case

Idaville's secret weapon against lawbreakers, ten-year-old Encyclopedia Brown, assists the police force with ten insoluble cases. Solutions are at the back of the book.

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Main Author: Sobol, Donald J., 1924-2012
Other Authors: Shortall, Leonard (Illustrator)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Puffin Books, 2008.
Series:Sobol, Donald J., 1924-2012. Encyclopedia Brown ; 10.
Subjects:
Brown, Encyclopedia (Fictitious character) > Juvenile fiction.
Detective and mystery fiction.
Short stories.
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Summary:Idaville's secret weapon against lawbreakers, ten-year-old Encyclopedia Brown, assists the police force with ten insoluble cases. Solutions are at the back of the book.
Physical Description:96 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Audience:560L
ISBN:9780142410851
0142410853
9780606001809
0606001808
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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