The Onion is “Reporting” Police are currently investigating the death of police detective Leroy “Encyclopedia” Brown, 49, whose body was discovered in a Dumpster behind the Idaville Public Library Monday.
“Detective Brown’s death is a great loss,” said Idaville Police Commissioner Rupert “Bugs” Meany, a longtime critic of Brown’s unorthodox investigative technique who nevertheless appeared to be shaken by the murder. “Thanks to him, Idaville has the highest arrest-to-conviction-due-to-obscure-trivia rate in the nation. I believe I speak for everyone in Idaville when I say that Encyclopedia Brown was truly the greatest sleuth in sneakers.”
Mourning…
I will mourn the loss of this great man who taught me how to read backwards. Still can’t write backwards, dimmit.
The Case of the Back-of-the-Book Bozo
I spent the whole morning trying to make my browser turn to page 76 so I could solve the case.
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I sent this story out to my co-workers at the library. The first three who opened it had no idea that Encyclopedia Brown is and thought it was a real murder…
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Weird, I’d have thought more librarians would have been into Encyclopedia Brown as a kid — solving mysteries through the use of quirky facts fits really well with the whole reference librarian mindset. Part of the job description, really…