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 Originally published Nashville T Nelson c1966 - from Amzon