Leroy Brown is back in the next six books in the Encyclopedia Brown series As Idaville s ten year old star detective Encyclopedia has an uncanny knack for trivia With his unconventional knowledge 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 some of the most baffling crimes With ten confounding mysteries in each book not only does Encyclopedia have a chance to solve them but readers are given all the clues as well and can chime in with their own solutions Interactive and fun 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 Originally published Camden N J T Nelson c1968 The town s ten year old walking encyclopedia again solves ten neighborhood mysteries The final solutions to the cases are at the back of the book giving the reader a chance to compare his skill to that of Encyclopedia Brown - from Amzon