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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-C