Everyone’s favorite boy detective! Leroy Brown, aka Encyclopedia Brown, can solve any crime for just 25 cents a day (plus expenses), and usually before dinner time. Filled with puzzling clues readers can solve too, this classic, bestselling series has been enchanting and educating young readers for over 40 years!
(Source: Penguin Random House)
Simple mysteries that force you to pay attention to the details
This is the Japanese translation of 15 mysteries collected from various Encyclopedia Brown books, about the ten-year-old son of a small-town police chief who has such a knack for facts that he opens his own detective agency to help the local kids (and sometimes his father) with their problems. Each chapter is a stand-alone mystery where the incident is described with usually a single inconsistent detail thrown in, and the reader is tasked with figuring out how Encyclopedia Brown solved it befo