- Detective and mystery stories, Juvenile fiction, Short stories, Mystery and detective stories
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.
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Warm, resolved, cool and plot-driven.
- warmbleak
- resolvedopen-ended
- cooloverwhelming
- character-ledplot-driven
- sparerichly built
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- Author
- Donald J. Sobol
- First published
- 1963
- Pages
- 104
- Publisher
- Perfection Learning Prebound, Bantam Skylark, Editorial Molino
- Editions
- 32
- Language
- heb, Spanish, English
- ISBN
- 9780553157246
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Donald J. Sobol was born and raised in New York City. He graduated from the Fieldston School in New York City in 1942 and joined the Army Corps of Engineers during World War II. After the war, he got a degree from Oberlin College. He worked in New York for several years, working his way up from copy boy to reporter for the New York Sun, and then working for the New York Daily News, and worked there for two years. In the 1950s he moved to Miami to pursue writing full-time. He started writing the Two-Minute Mysteries series in 1959, and he started writing his popular Encyclopedia Brown mystery series for children in 1963. The Mystery Writers of America awarded him a Special Edgar Award for his
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