*Checks page 87*
It was Bugs Meaney, if anyone's interested.
In all seriousness, sad to hear his passing. I loved reading all his books and the goofy little slip-ups all the people made that "gave them away." However, I do like to remember his "Two-Minute Mysteries," which were the same basic things as the Encyclopedia Browns, except they dealt with much more adult crimes like bank robberies and murders (almost always a bullet to the temple...go read them and tell me otherwise) solved by the almost unpronounceable Dr. Haledjian. There was always a mystery that never sat well with me, because the solution was not based in logic, but in a sort of sexist assumption. A woman witnesses a murder next door, which she saw through a staircase window as she went to go put her new brand new mink away. Haledjian says she's lying. How does he know?
"No woman would immediately put her first mink coat away in a closet. She'd put it on and purr over it."
At least a little more thought went into "Algernon Kehoe," I have to say. Still, even knowing the answers, I read that Two-Minute Mysteries and all the Brown books cover to cover many, many times.
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