With unspeakable phobias, a need to sleep with three night-lights, and a horrible allergy to peanut butter, Joe Sherlock is not your typical neighborhood hero. But fear not, Joe Sherlock always cracks the case . . . and just in time for dinner.

Case #000001: The Haunted Toolshed

Cakes vanishing into thin air? Mailboxes disappearing without a trace? Evil lurks in Mr. Asher's toolshed? Joe Sherlock must investigate the strange and unexplained

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There is a reason he’s called the World’s Greatest Detective. Discover the incredible history behind crime fiction’s most iconic character of all time, and find out why the world can’t get enough of his genius. Inspired by his brilliant lecturer Joseph Bell, Arthur Conan Doyle first wrote about the famous Holmes and Watson for Strand Magazine in 1887, and the rest is history. Read about the lives of both author and character, and discover

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The curse of the Baskervilles dates to the seventeenth century, when the wicked Hugo Baskerville chased a farmer's daughter across the pitch-dark moor of Grimpen with vile intentions. The poor girl died of fright, but Baskerville's fate was worse -- a giant black hound, eyes afire and jaws dripping with blood, tore out his throat and devoured it on the spot. Since then, the specter of that terrible beast has haunted Baskerville Hall, many of whose...

After Conan Doyle "killed off" Holmes in "The final problem", the 13 stories contained in this volume were meant to appease outraged fans and "firmly put to rest all the misinformed rumors of Holmes' demise". Stories include: "The adventure of the dancing men"; The adventure of the three students"; and "The adventure of the Abbey Grange."

Fifth-grader "Encyclopedia" Leroy Brown solves ten mysteries and, by putting the solutions at the back of the book, challenges the reader to do the same.

"This collection includes many of the most familiar cases Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson ever solve, including "Silver Blaze," "The Greek Interpreter," and "The Musgrave Ritual." As Holmes's fame grows, it brings him a notoriety that piques the ire of London's criminal underworld, who begin to scheme against him. It is in "The Final Problem" that Dr. Watson relates the grisly, fatal, and shocking tale of how Holmes finally meets his match, encountering...

The town's ten-year-old walking encyclopedia again solves ten neighborhood mysteries. The final solutions to the cases are at the back of the book, giving the reader a chance to compare his skill to that of Encyclopedia Brown.

Ten mysteries for ten-year-old Encyclopedia Brown, his partner, Sally, and the reader to solve. Solutions are given at the back of the book.

Encyclopedia Brown, brilliant fifth-grade amateur detective, solves ten crimes. The reader may match solutions with those at the end of the book.

The solutions to ten mysteries solved by Leroy "Encyclopedia" Brown are given in a separate section challenging the reader to match wits with the ten-year-old mastermind of Idaville's war on crime.