> > > > I knew that, somehow it was the sollution to a Encyclapedia Brown story.
> > > >
> > > > Spider-samegreattaste,moreusslessfacts-Boy
> > >
> > > Yes, "The Case of the Hard-luck Boy". This one girl broke the first prize, so she intentionally lost. She "called herself a bookkeeper because she straightened the shelves in her father's bookstore after school." Therefore, she should have known "a word with three double letters in a row." Arty, the Hard-luck Boy, won first prize, the broken wristwatch.
> > >
> > > Nyper"I have the book"old
> >
> > YES! Thats the one! I read all the Encyclopedia Brown books I could in 4th, 5th, and 6th grade.
> > Wasn't there a short lived TV series?
> >
> > Spider-escapedfromtheDimentionofPainyesterday,
> > andallIgotwasthislousyT-Shirt-Boy
>
> There may have been, but I've also seen videos.
>
> Nyperold

I read *all* those books when I was a kid. They were great. Looking back, though, I probably would have ended up killing Joe if I'd hung out with somebody like him.

Brunnen-"I wanted to go around solving mysteries but I could never find any that were exciting enough"G