![]() Even worse, I loved and admired my parents.”ĭonald J. My childhood was unimpoverished and joyful. He was the most unlikely of authors, joking once that “I am totally unqualified to be a writer. Then he would indicate he had the solution-but he wouldn’t explain it, not right then. He would carefully examine the clues, listen to what the witnesses said, then compare that with his vast store of knowledge gleaned from reading as well as his own common sense. In each story, someone would present Encyclopedia with a puzzle. I also loved it because of a clever gimmick that Sobol used.Įach book contained ten stories. I loved the Encyclopedia Brown books as a kid, not just because I loved the idea that a kid could be smarter than the adults. (These days he’d have to be Wikipedia Brown, which just doesn’t sound as authoritative.) He solves small mysteries for his friends and sometimes helps out on big cases that baffle his police chief dad, exposing robbers and con men by spotting the clue everyone else missed. Sobol’s sleuth has a keen eye and a prodigious memory for arcane facts-hence his nickname. ![]() He runs his cut-rate detective agency out of his family’s garage on Rover Avenue. ![]() It exists in the era before cellphones, video games, and Arianna Grande, when kids went fishing or rode bikes for fun. His beat is an idealized Florida beach town named Idaville. ![]()
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