Mr. Brown may be the Chief of Police of

Idaville, but it is his son Leroy who puts the clues

together and provides the solutions to many police

cases. His success in solving his father s cases leads

Leroy, also known as Encyclopedia Brown, to form

his own detective agency with Sally Kimball as his

partner. Then one day Encyclopedia finds that he

himself is the victim of a crime.

Between nine and nine-thirty on Tuesday

morning Sally Kimball s roller skates disappeared

from the waiting room in Dr. Vivian Wilson s

office.

And where was Encyclopedia Brown, boy

detective? He was not ten feet away from the

scene of the crime. He was sitting in a chair,

with his eyes shut and his mouth wide open!