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Politics

Enyclopedia Brown: The Grown-Up Years

Jesse Walker | 7.17.2012 12:33 PM

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Patrick from Popehat looks back at the career of the late Leroy "Encyclopedia" Brown, "disgraced former detective for the Rover Avenue Police Department and later private investigator to the stars."

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Jesse Walker is books editor at Reason and the author of Rebels on the Air and The United States of Paranoia.

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