# Remember "Encylopedia Brown?"

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**Created:** [January 19, 2003, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-encylopedia-brown/149588 "2003-01-19T04:06:10Z")\
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**Author:** ![caveman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/caveman/32/7242_2.png) [@caveman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/caveman)\
**Post date:** [January 20, 2003, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-encylopedia-brown/149588/21 "2003-01-20T03:40:30Z")

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ahh, Encyclopedia Brown! Before age 13, my most identified-with character in all of literature!

I have the first (I’m nort sure if there were many more) 20 or so volumes of the Bantam series, plus a few “fun facts” books that Unca Cecil would happily kindle a bonfire with.

Does anyone know that the deal was with EB books being printed by both Apple and Bantam?

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**Author:** ![Flamsterette\_X](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/41988e/32.png) [@Flamsterette\_X](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flamsterette_X)\
**Post date:** [January 20, 2003, 5:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-encylopedia-brown/149588/22 "2003-01-20T05:25:23Z")

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> \*Originally posted by LWL \*  
> **Anybody remember a similar series by the same author (Donald J. Sobol) called Two Minute Mysteries? It was essentially a more “grown-up” version of Encyclopedia Brown. Many of the cases were murders, a crime I don’t recall ever happening in the EB books. Also, as befitting the series’ title, each case was only two pages long, with the solution printed upside-down on the second page. The series was a fun read (although if I remember correctly, many of the cases were similar to Encyclopedia Brown cases), with its own set of quirky characters that the hero kept running into.**

My brother (five years younger than me) and I loved the Encyclopedia Brown series, and reading this thread has brought back some good memories. I remember the “Two-Minute Mysteries” series… those were quite good, as well. 🙂

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**Author:** ![Tenar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/35a633/32.png) [@Tenar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tenar)\
**Post date:** [January 20, 2003, 7:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-encylopedia-brown/149588/23 "2003-01-20T07:02:13Z")

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Ah, yes! “The Three Investigators”! I absolutely loved them. The kids got around in a chauffeured limo, the use of which they had won in a contest, if I remember correctly.

Hey, not everybody had access to the Hardy Boys’ planes and speedboats or Nancy Drew’s roadster.

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