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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"      _Frontispiece_

 "THIS SHELL GAME IS EASY ENOUGH WHEN YOU KNOW HOW"               8

 MR. WINTERBERRY