280 Mysteries Ep 20 – The Case of the Dwarf’s Beard

372 Pages We'll Never Get Back

Arts, Books, Comedy

4.8 • 595 Ratings

🗓️ 6 February 2026

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Listen to the entire 280 Mysteries archive and take part in fun exclusives like our Choose Your Own Adventure livestream with John Hodgman, only on the 372 Patreon! https://patreon.com/372pages Can Conor crack the case of The Dwarf’s Beard? If you don’t say yes Sally is gonna sock you one real good!!

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0:00.0	Hey, everyone.
0:08.2	Mike and Connor here for 2,947 mysteries.
0:14.6	Exactly.
0:15.5	It was a prolific man that Donald J. Sobel.
0:18.5	I mean, there are so many.
0:20.6	I still haven't even...
0:21.4	I got to crack open the book, the Wacky Crimes.
0:24.1	Oh, the Wacky Crimes.
0:25.5	Yeah.
0:25.7	I think it's on my shelf up there.
0:27.7	But anyway, this is the extra special bonus, where we challenge one another
0:33.8	to solve Encyclopedia Brown Mysteries from the great Donald Sobel, written from the
0:42.3	50s to the 90s?
0:45.1	Yeah, pretty much.
0:46.2	I mean, early 60s at the latest, but then well into the 90s, very little seeming to change
0:53.8	in the world of encyclopedia throughout the time.
0:56.8	They remained Bowery boys and Mayberry for the entirety of the duration of the series.
1:03.6	Very Woodhousian, may I say.
1:07.9	Woodhouse wrote from like the late 20s.
1:10.6	I mean, he wrote wrote i think before that but
1:12.3	he wrote the the jeeves world in the 20s and then in the i think in like the late 80s he
1:18.7	oh wow so he just kept turning them out and it you can't tell i mean he's still the same birdie comes
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