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Philo Gubb Correspondence-School Detective, by
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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
ILLUS