Donald J Sobol

Having garnered both Young Readers' Choice and Special Edgar Awards, Donald J. Sobol's Encyclopedia Brown stories have been children's classics for decades. In this installment, the 10-year-old detective uses his vast knowledge and probing questions to expose a muscle-bound scam, a crooked protection racket, a circus frame-up, and other baffling mysteries.

This volume includes:
Encyclopedia Brown, Boy Detective and The Case of the Secret Pitch – two collections of mysteries that Encyclopedia Brown must solve by using his famous computerlike brain.
A cross-eyed baseball pitch...
A kid-lover tumed kidnapper...
A watermelon stabbing...
A trapeze artist's inheritance...
These are just some of the brain-twisters included. Try to crack the cases along with him—the...

Ten brief cases allow the reader to match wits with ten-year-old crime-buster, Encyclopedia Brown, as he investigates such cases as whether a diary of George Washington's mother is authentic, or if a UFO picture supposedly taken by the army is real.

Idaville's secret weapon against lawbreakers, ten-year-old Leroy "Encyclopedia" Brown, helps the police force solve ten new cases, the solutions to which are found in the back of the book.

Ten brief cases allow the reader to match wits with ten-year-old crime-buster Encyclopedia Brown as he tackles such problems as locating stolen jewels and retrieving a stuffed tiger.

Ten brief cases in which the reader pits his wits against those of Encyclopedia Brown, an ingenious twelve-year-old detective.

Ten mysteries for ten-year-old Encyclopedia Brown, his partner, Sally, and the reader to solve. Solutions are given at the back of the book.

Encyclopedia Brown, boy detective extraordinaire, solves ten new cases, including "The Case of the Miracle Pill," "The Case of Nemo's Tuba," "The Case of the Lawn Mower Races," and "The Case of the Air Guitar."

Ten cases that involve the reader's crime-solving participation present the remarkable boy detective working on his own and helping his police chief father with Idaville's more serious problems.

America's Sherlock Holmes in sneakers continues his war on crime in ten more cases, the solutions to which are found in the back of the book.