Philo Gubb, Correspondence School Detective

“Funny and clever …”
- Byron Rupert McCafferty, Online Critics Corner.

Not only is Mr. Philo Grubb a professional wallpaper hanger, he’s also a graduate of the Rising Sun Detective Agency’s Correspondence School of Detecting. Along with being a trained master of disguise, Philo is pretty good at solving crimes. Here are 17 of Philo’s most successful cases, including “The Eagle’s Claw,” “The Un-Burglars,” “The Progressive Murder,” and “The Anonymous Wiggle.” Philo Gubb is a new kind of “deteckative” that you’ll love.

Ellis Parker Butler (1869 –1937) was the author of more than 30 books and 2,000 stories and essays. His most famous short story was “Pigs Is Pigs,” about a stationmaster levying the livestock rate for a shipment of two pet guinea pigs that start proliferating. His stories, poems, and articles have published in more than 225 magazines. His work has appeared alongside Mark Twain, Sax Rohmer, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Will Rogers, and Edgar Rice Burroughs. Butler worked as a banker. Although only a part-time writer, Butler was influential in the New York literary scene. He was a founding member of the Author’s League of America.