ILLUSTRATIONS
Ellis Parker Butler
“In the deteckative line nothing sounds foolish”
Frontispiece
“This shell game is easy enough when you know
how”
8
Mr. Winterberry did not seem to be concealed
among them
30
A head silhouetted against one of the glowing
windows
44
“These here is false whiskers and hair”
86
“Who sent you here, anyway?”
106
Under his arm he carried a small bundle
108
She made gestures with her hands
128
“Deteckating is my aim and my profession”
138
With another groan Wixy raised his hands
150
“The ‘ongsomble’ of my costume is ruined”
162
“There ain’t a day he don’t shoot and hit me”
178
The Missing Mr. Master
202
“You are a man, and big and strong and brave-like”
234
He perspires, and out comes the cruel
admission
252
A man who looked like Napoleon Bonaparte
gone to seed
268
He wore a set of red under-chin whiskers
280
“She thinks it’s Henry. She’s fixed up the
guest bedroom for him
”
304
A deteckative like you are oughtn’t to need
twenty-five cents so bad as that”
320
He was followed by a large and growing group
intent on watching a detective detect
340
PHILO GUBB
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