History Literature / EncyclopediaBrown

* LongRunner: Sobol first started publishing the series in the 1960s and hasn't stopped, publishing the most recent book in 2009.

* MeaningfulName: Bugs Meaney.

* TheWarOnStraw: In "The Case of the Dead Eagles", Encyclopedia promotes gun control and ridicules the "Guns don't kill people, people do" argument. In so doing, he makes an analogy, stating that that logic, applied to cars, would lead to abolition of all traffic laws and regulations and fines. Except it doesn't. The aforementioned argument is that people, not guns, are responsible for gun-related offenses, and that the best remedy society has is to punish said people, using the existing regulations Encyclopedia claims his opponents want to abolish, rather than outlawing guns altogether. In fact, although groups like the NRA want to see a rollback of many gun restrictions, ''no one'' wants to see an abolition of regulations against irresponsible gun use (or punishments for said misuse), or the prevention of gun ownership by felons or the mentally ill or mentally disabled.

** Bugs Meaney as well.

* In "The Case of the Dead Eagles", Encyclopedia promotes gun control and ridicules the "Guns don't kill people, people do" argument. In so doing, he makes an analogy, stating that that logic, applied to cars, would lead to abolition of all traffic laws and regulations and fines. Except it doesn't. The aforementioned argument is that people, not guns, are responsible for gun-related offenses, and that the best remedy society has is to punish said people, using the existing regulations Encyclopedia claims his opponents want to abolish, rather than outlawing guns altogether. In fact, although groups like the NRA want to see a rollback of many gun restrictions, ''no one'' wants to see an abolition of regulations against irresponsible gun use (or punishments for said misuse), or the prevention of gun ownership by felons or the mentally ill or mentally disabled.

* LongRunner: Sobol first started publishing the series in the 1960s and hasn't stopped, publishing the most recent book in 2009.

* * HollywoodLaw: The story that introduces Sally, when she presents a mystery to test Encyclopedia's skill, has one glaring flaw that falsifies the solution: when the grandniece states that Merko is not Fred Gibson's grandfather, the court takes her claim seriously, because Merko, revealed in the solution to be a woman, is the man's grandmother. However, in real life, the probate judge is well aware of the decedent's gender (it's on the death certificate, after all, and this hearing took place decades after Merko's death), and such a statement would have been dismissed out of hand as frivolous. Even if the judge didn't know (Merko had posed as a man her entire life, and there was either no medical examination or the coroner had been suborned to falsify the record), the question of Merko's gender was legally irrelevant in any case. The only way the grandniece could have been taken seriously would have been if Merko had been a man, and the allegation was that Fred Gibson had simply been lying. It's obvious, in-universe, that Sally is trying to test not only Encyclopedia's intelligence, but whether or not he is sexist; however, she could have devised a better story.

* ''Encyclopedia Brown Keeps the Peace'' (1969).

* ''Encyclopedia Brown Strikes Again'' (1965), also known as ''The Case of the Secret Pitch''

Note that the series (which started in 1963) is ''still'' running, with the most recent book being published in 2010.

* ConvictionByContradiction: Used constantly! The series contains classic examples of the trope.
** Was the former TropeNamer, in fact; the old name was BugsMeanyIsGonnaWalk before the wiki's [[RenamedTropes general movement to less reference-dependent names]].

** Former TropeNamer again-- EncyclopediaBrowned, by way of a pun on DanBrowned. Again, fell victim to [[{{SPOON}} the movement against reference-dependent names]].

Note that the series is ''still'' running, with the most recent book being published in 2010.