Encyclopedia Brown is a ten year old boy who lives in Idaville. Encyclopedia is reported to be the brains behind the fact that all crimes in Idaville are solved. Even crimes that his father, the police chief, deals with are solved at the dinner table along with Encyclopedia his brilliant son.
The "Encyclopedia Brown saves the day" is broken into ten chapters which are each short separate mysteries. The one page solution to each mystery is printed at the back of the book, apparently to encourage readers to solve the mystery themselves, before reading the actual solution.
I found this book curiously unsatisfying. The short mystery / solution concept is a interesting idea, but it did not seem to work well. The solutions to the mysteries should be ones that readers could reason out for themselves and sometimes that was the case, but often it was not. I think this book may appeal to readers with very short attention spans, but it does not give the same satisfaction as reading a good fully developed mystery.
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