Encyclopedia Brown and the case of the midnight visitor (7 page)

When Encyclopedia pointed this out. Stinky admitted he had brought dead mosquitoes with him to the bushes. He had scattered them when he saw the judges approaching.

Stinky was given a score of 0, and Lindylou Duckworth was declared the winner of the Odd-Ball Olympics.

Sol«ti«H !• The Cmse of Blue^Point Biaekie

The man in the tan hat was only making believe he was reading his newspaper.

When a newspaper is read with the top half folded over, the headlines appear upside down.

To Caswell, who was standing on his head, the headline should have been right side up. Instead, they were upside down!

Hence, Encyclopedia realized the man was a lookout.

Encyclopedia remembered the movie magazine which the man had handled. The police lifted fingerprints from it.

Blue-Point Blackie had been carrying stolen diamonds in his overnight bag. Members of a rival gang jumped him.

With the help of the fingerprints, the gang was rounded up within two weeks.

S«lailMi tm The Cmse •/ the Hi^Rmm Cmr

The robbers had worn hospital uniforms beneath their black capes and used a stolen ambulance as the getaway car.

They had planned everything—except the mischance of passing an accident.

They could not run over the shouting woman or ignore her pleas without drawing attention to themselves.

Still, they might have got away, but for Encyclopedia. He realized they weren't really ambulance men. They loaded the injured man into the ambulance feet first.

All life-support equipment is stored behind the front seat of an ambulance. So patients are always loaded headfirst!

P.S. Aided by the license plate numbers which Encyclopedia had seen, the police caught the hit-run driver as well.

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Since the publication of the first Encyclopedia Brown book in 1963, Donald J. Sobol has written roughly one book a year. In 1967, at a Children's Book Fair, he explained, "I began writing children's mysteries because the mystery element was really very small in the so-called mysteries that were written for children and I felt that this was a shame." In 1976, the Encyclopedia Brown series was the recipient of a special 1976 Edgar Allan Poe Award, presented by the Mystery Writers of America in recognition of these books as the first mysteries that millions of children read. In addition to the Encyclopedia Brown series, Mr. Sobol has authored over twenty books for young readers. A native of New York, he now lives in Florida with his wife and children. He has been a free-lance writer for eighteen years.

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