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Leroy “Encyclopedia” Brown is a fictional boy detective, the main character in a long series of children’s books written by Donald J. Sobol since 1963.
Books featuring this character are subdivided into a number of (possibly interlinked) short stories, each of which presents a mystery. The mystery is always intended to be solved by the reader, thanks to the placement of a logical or factual inconsistency somewhere within the text. Encyclopedia Brown invariably solves the case by exposing this inconsistency, but this part of the story is placed at the end of the book; the bulk of the story ends just at the moment when readers are invited to solve the case themselves, or flip to the section in the back with the answers. Many books follow a formula where Encyclopedia solves a case for his father (the local police chief), outsmarts local bully Bugs Meany in another chapter, and then foils Bugs’s plans for revenge (often involving framing Brown or one of his friends for wrongdoing) in the third chapter.
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inspired by Encyclopedia Brown when I was young, I actually “started” my own detective agency, wrote up brochures, and walked up and down my street putting the brochures in neighbors’ mailboxes.
Did you have any cases to solve?