Encyclopedia Brown and the Case of the Secret Pitch
By: By Donald J. Sobol. Illustrated by Leonard Shortall.
Contributors: Leonard W. Shortall (Illustrator)
Edition: 1st edition
Publisher: Thomas Nelson Publishers
Published: 1965
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 96
ISBN-13: 9780840772022
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