This volume of 3 Detectives collects the stories of three early investigators. The Hon. Augustus Champnell, Richard Marsh's aristocratic detective, featured in five short stories (as well as making cameos in a couple of supernatural mystery novels). Jane Sprood had already tackled suffrage and prohibition, so taking the step into the detective business, where she could show that women were just as good as men, if not better, seemed the next logical step. E. Phillips Oppenheim's detective Stanley Brooke unearths the strange and criminous underbelly of London, but the greatest challenge he...

-This classic humourous collection of detective mystery stories is beautifully illustrated with close to 20 wonderful images to add to the readers enjoyment. Not only is Mr. Philo Gubb a professional wallpaper hanger, he's also a graduate of the Rising Sun Detective Agency's Correspondence School of Detecting. As well as being a book-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...

"Dominie Dean" from Ellis Parker Butler. American author (1869-1937).

"In Pawn" from Ellis Parker Butler. American author (1869-1937).

"Kilo - being the love story of Eliph Hewlitt" from Ellis Parker Butler. American author (1869-1937).

"Mike Flannery On Duty and Off" from Ellis Parker Butler. American author (1869-1937).

"Perkins of Portland" from Ellis Parker Butler. American author (1869-1937).

"Philo Gubb - Correspondence-School Detective" from Ellis Parker Butler. American author (1869-1937).

"Swatty" from Ellis Parker Butler. American author (1869-1937).