Encyclopedia Brown and the Case of the Secret Pitch
Contributors: Leonard W. Shortall (Illustrator)
Edition: A Dell Yearling Book
Publisher: Yearling
Published: 1 July 1982
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 128
ISBN-13: 9780553157369
Subjects: Adventure stories; Juvenile Fiction; Children's Books/Ages 9-12 Fiction; Children: Grades 3-4; Mysteries, Espionage, & Detective Stories; Juvenile Fiction / Mysteries & Detective Stories; Action & Adventure - General
First sentence: Idaville looked like any other town of its size-from the outside.
Description: A cross-eyed baseball pitch...a missing penknife named Excalibur...poems that pack a punch...a kid-lover tumed kidnapper...and some tall tales that come up short!

These are just some of the ten brain-twisting mysteries that Encyclopedia Brown must solve by using his famous computerlike brain. Try to crack the cases along with him -- the answers to all the mysteries are found in the back!
Table of contents: title: The Case of the Secret Pitch; title: The Case of the Balloon Man; title: The Case of the Ambushed Cowboy; title: The Case of the Forgetful Sheriff; title: The Case of the Hungry Hitchhiker; title: The Case of the Two-Fisted Poet; title: The Case of the Wounded Toe; title: The Case of Excalibur; title: The Case of the Glass of Ginger Ale; title: The Case of the Stomach Puncher