Match Wits With The World’s Greatest Boy Sleuth A huge footprint in the soft earth … counterfeit money in a bird’s nest … a threatening letter … an exploding toilet … a missing silver dollar … and a stolen newspaper clipping that could be valuable! These are the only traces left at the scene of ten brain-twisting crimes that Encyclopedia Brown must solve! I loved Encyclopedia Brown as a kid. -Junot Diaz, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao