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I had a slightly different experience. I loved the Einstein Anderson books as a kid, but could never get into the Encyclopedia Brown stories, since I could nev

• shasta 14y ago
  Hah! Nice link. I do remember some of those from childhood, including this one which I found to be false even as a kid: """One solution in Encyclopedia Brown Takes the Cake relied on the fact that the culprit had used glycerin tears that fell from the outside corners of her eyes instead of the inside, thus revealing them to be fake, as "If only one tear falls, it will run from the inside corner of the eye, by the nose, and not from the outside corner." Only, none of that is true. """
• DrStalker 14y ago
  As a child I felt the endings were less about deductive reasoning and more about "ha ha! here is a clue I wrote about in a way to deliberately make you, the reader, not attach importance to it!" Having said that I did read all the Encyclopedia brown in the School library so they were still good, just not great.