Brains Benton Encyclopedia

Newspaper headlines about Benton and Carson		Curly
"Young Sherlocks Trap Jewel Thieves", From the Crestwood Daily Ledger (PD, Pg 184) "Crestwood's Young Hero's of the Hour" From the Crestwood Daily Ledger (SD, Pg 185) "Junior Sleuths Trap Crook" From the Crestwood Daily Ledger (CC, Pg 10) Mysterious attack on junior sleuths. From the Crestwood Daily Ledger (SD, Pg 81)		Brain's Airedale who died of old age six months before MM was written (MM, Pg 119).

Code Phrases		Carrier Pigeon
"The kangaroos have escaped" meaning get to the Lab as quickly as you can (MM, Pg 11) "The sun shines but the ice is slippery" The Password to get into the Lab (MM, Pg 12) "Eruption on Mount Olympus" meaning get to the Lab as quickly as you can - Contributed by Charles Morgan (SD pg. 130) "The alligators need bathing" meaning get to the Lab as quickly as you can - Contributed by Charles Morgan (RR pg. 11) "Satellite Zeta is in Orbit" meaning, I have important news (CC, Pg 15, Pg 100) "The monkey's have no tails in Zamboanga" Password to gain entrance to the Lab (RR, Pg 13)		While bicycling down Chestnut Drive a few weeks after PD wrapped up BB and JC discovered this bird. It had been shot. BB felt it might be the start of another case. Although "The Case of the Carrier Pigeon" is not part of the official cannon it did become fan fiction written by one of the members of the Brains Benton Discussion group on Yahoo.com. Click here to read it.

Sherlock Holmes story "The Adventure of the Six Napoleons"		Benton and Carson International Detective Agency
Mikko makes a reference to it (PD, Pg 137)		Official name of the detective agency that BB and JC had started about one year before MM took place (MM, Pg 15) usually called Benton and Carson. Note: If we take the year of MM's publication as the base year for a timeline then the agency was formed in 1958.
Books		The Senator
"Ways and Means of Trapping the Criminal", Brains was learning how to make plaster casts of footprints from this book (MM, Pg 17) "Solutions of Puzzling Crime Cases" (MM, Pg 109) Brains learns that in two of the cases discussed in that book that missing documents had been found in secret desk drawers (MM, Pg 122) "The History Of Coin Collecting", "Famous Counterfeiters Of History", (CC, Pg 135) "The Canaanite of Syrian History", BB and JC go to Middlebury to purchase this book for BB's father (SD, Pg 103)		African Grey Parrot (MM, Pg 66) his favorite sayings are "Cut his throat" (MM, Pg 62) "Any of You Cheap Skates Got a Cigar" (MM, Pg 65) "Aw, Shut up" (MM, Pg 65) "Go Wash Your Neck" (MM Pg 65) "Hello madam, you look like an unmade bed" (MM, Pg 74) "Help, Help I'm drowning" (MM Pg 75)

Marjory		Gulliver
Elephant owned by Bimbo (MM, Pg, 44,)		Small Spotted dog owned by Skeets (MM, Pg 53)

Sunflower seeds		July
The Senator's favorite food (MM, Pg 74)		MM took place in this month (CC, Pg 10)

April		Cherry-Fizz
CC took place in this month during Easter Vacation (CC, Pg 11) PD took place in mid-April (PD, Pg 12)		JC's favorite beverage (CC, Pg 11 & 12)