Two-Minute Mysteries Collection: Two-Minute Mysteries; More Two-Minute Mysteries; Still More Two-Minute Mysteries

Donald J. Sobol

Scholastic, Incorporated, 2004 - 422 pages

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This book never should have been reprinted in the 21st century, especially not for children. One of the questions is about phone systems in the "older part of town", systems that were obsolete when ...

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A bunch of two page mysteries, all centering around a single clue. If you've read his Encyclopedia Brown mysteries, you'll know a lot of these, and a number of them seem to be based around the idea ...

About the author

Donald J. Sobol was born in the Bronx, New York on October 4, 1924. During World War II, he served in the Army as a sergeant in a combat engineer battalion in the Pacific. He received a B.A. degree from Oberlin College. He worked as a copy boy and then a reporter at The New York Sun and The Long Island Daily Press. In 1959, he began writing a syndicated fiction column called Two-Minute Mysteries. He is the creator of the Encyclopedia Brown series. His first book, Encyclopedia Brown, Boy Detective, was published in 1963. During his lifetime, he wrote more than 80 books. In 1976, he won an Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America for the Encyclopedia Brown series. He died from gastric lymphoma on July 11, 2012 at the age of 87.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Two-Minute Mysteries Collection: Two-Minute Mysteries; More Two-Minute Mysteries; Still More Two-Minute Mysteries
• Author: Donald J. Sobol
• Publisher: Scholastic, Incorporated, 2004
• ISBN: 068102478X, 9780681024786
• Length: 422 pages