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Title: Philo Gubb Correspondence-School Detective

Author: Ellis Parker Butler

Release Date: August 17, 2009 [EBook #29721]

Language: English

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PHILO GUBB

Correspondence-School
Detective

BY

ELLIS PARKER BUTLER

WITH ILLUSTRATIONS

BOSTON AND NEW YORK
HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY
The Riverside Press Cambridge
1918

COPYRIGHT, 1913, 1914, AND 1915, BY THE RED BOOK CORPORATION
COPYRIGHT, 1918, BY ELLIS PARKER BUTLER

ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

_Published September 1918_

[Illustration: "IN THE DETECKATIVE LINE NOTHING SOUNDS FOOLISH" (_page
218_)]

CONTENTS

THE HARD-BOILED EGG 3

THE PET 21

THE EAGLE'S CLAWS 43

THE OUBLIETTE 66

THE UN-BURGLARS 95

THE TWO-CENT STAMP 113

THE CHICKEN 138

THE DRAGON'S EYE 156

THE PROGRESSIVE MURDER 171

THE MISSING MR. MASTER 185

WAFFLES AND MUSTARD 205

THE ANONYMOUS WIGGLE 227

THE HALF OF A THOUSAND 247

DIETZ'S 7462 BESSIE JOHN 266

HENRY 288

BURIED BONES 307

PHILO GUBB'S GREATEST CASE 329

ILLUSTRATIONS

"IN THE DETECKATIVE LINE NOTHING SOUNDS FOOLISH" _F