Title: Encyclopedia Brown Strikes Again
First published: July 1976
Description: ***Fifth-grader "Encyclopedia" Leroy Brown solves ten mysteries and, by putting the solutions at the back of the book, challenges the reader to do the same.***

Leroy Brown, aka Encyclopedia Brown, is Idaville neighborhood’s ten-year-old star detective. With an uncanny knack for trivia, he solves mysteries for the neighborhood kids through his own detective agency. But **his dad also happens to be the chief of the Idaville Police Department,** and every night around the dinner table, Encyclopedia helps him solve his most baffling crimes.

***And with ten confounding mysteries in each book, not only does Encyclopedia have a chance to solve them, but the reader is given all the clues as well. Interactive and chock full of interesting bits of information—it’s classic Encyclopedia Brown!***

“I loved Encyclopedia Brown as a kid.”—Junot Diaz, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao***--Goodreads***
Subjects: Donald J. Sobol, Leonard Shortall, Youth, Fiction, Literature, Short, Stories, Encyclopedia Brown, Series, Collection, Chapters, Chapter Book, Books, Boy, America's Sherlock Holmes, Detective, Mystery, Mysteries, Humor, Humorous, Antics, Sneakers, Baseball, Chief of Police, Mystery stories, Detective and mystery stories, Juvenile Fiction, Mystery and detective stories, Encyclopedia Brown (Fictitious character), Parodies, imitations, Mystery fiction, Juvenile fiction, Biography, Companions, Muslims, Children's fiction, Brown, encyclopedia (fictitious character), fiction
Places: Idaville, New York City
People: Fictional Character - Sherlock Holmes, Spike Browning, Arthur Conan Doyle Sir (1859-1930)
Time periods: 1965
LC classification: PZ7.S68524 Ep