Remember "Encylopedia Brown?"

[caveman]

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?

[Flamsterette_X]

*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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[Tenar]

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.