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by Doug Bentin on July 16, 2010 · 1 comment

Unearthing buried treasures from pulp literature's yesteryear! Buy diazepam, I’m not sure why I feel this way, but I wish I could recommend PHILO GUBB, CORRESPONDENCE-SCHOOL DETECTIVE more fervently than I can. Maybe this attitude springs just from the title, which is what drew me to it in the first place, Wyoming WY Wyo. . I grin every time I think of it. North Carolina NC N.C. , Maybe it’s the fact that the book scored #61 on QUEEN'S QUORUM, Ellery Queen’s list of books that rate as significant contributions to the history of the detective story, even though as mysteries, South Carolina SC S.C. , the tales in this collection are pretty thin broth. Buy diazepam online cheap, The thing is, they were never intended to be real, live whodunits at all, ordering diazepam without prescription, but humorous parodies of the kind of bumpkin detectives exemplified by Melville Davisson Post’s Uncle Abner and later by Phoebe Atwood Taylor’s Asey Mayo. Author Ellis Parker Butler was a well-liked and widely published humorist who was responsible for literally thousands of short essays and stories, none of which are must-read classics, although a story called “Pigs Is Pigs” stuck around longer than did anything else Butler wrote, buy diazepam. Michigan MI Mich. , Philo Gubb first entered the scene in REDBOOK magazine in 1913.

From 1918, PHILO GUBB, cheapest diazepam prices, CORRESPONDENCE-SCHOOL DETECTIVE is a collection of tall tales about a professional paperhanger in a small Iowa town who sends off for the Rising Sun Detective Agency’s Correspondence School of Detecting’s Course of Twelve Lessons. New Jersey NJ N.J. , In one of the better stories, “The Chicken,” Gubb is hired by a farm woman to find out who’s been stealing her chickens, billiga diazepam apotek. In the course of his “detecating, Cheap diazepam, ” as he insists on saying, our Surehick Holmes meets a city feller from Chicago who is hiding out after bumping off a Chi gunman known as “Chicken.” Yeah, you can see where this one is headed, cheapest diazepam online. Buy diazepam, They talk to each other at cross purposes. When the hood offers Gubb a bribe to keep mum, Arkansas AR Ark. , Philo asks for $5, which he intends to give to his client as payment for her missing hen. The gunsel thinks he’s getting off pretty light, ordering diazepam.

The pattern of many of the stories is the same: Gubb is visited by someone who hires him to solve some piddly little mystery and, Köpa diazepam online, in the course of taking care of business, the detective stumbles over a real crime and nabs the perpetrators, sometimes getting a reward, Indiana IN Ind. .

Butler’s sense of humor hasn’t aged well. If you think he might be an undeservedly forgotten Mark Twain, forget it, buy diazepam. Diazepam ordine on-line, He sometimes, however, allows a touch of pure absurdity into the proceedings, comprar diazepam baratos. In “The Two-Cent Stamp, Comprar en línea diazepam, “ Gubb climbs a ladder so he can wallpaper the ceiling — that’s what I said: “wallpaper the ceiling” — and while he’s up there, a series of people enter the room one after the other to hire him, either to find some lost booze and move it or destroy it or do something else with it, cheap diazepam from canada. He spends the entire story on the ladder, Diazepam online cheap, accomplishing nothing, but somehow managing to satisfy every one of his clients and receive payment from all of them.

I’m never quite sure why, ordering diazepam pills, but Gubb insists on speaking with a false fanciness. Buy diazepam, Maybe he’s trying to imitate Dr. Kjøpe diazepam online, Watson’s style. “’Mr. Wiggins is at present in the custody of the county jail for killing H, diazepam prescription. Smitz with intent to murder him, West Virginia WV W.Va. , ’ said Mr. Gubb.” That’s from “Philo Gubb’s Greatest Case,” in which Butler spends a couple of pages in allowing Philo to explain that a man found sewn into a burlap bag and floating in the Mississippi River is probably not a suicide, buy diazepam. It’s a bit that would be funny in a paragraph, but not stretched out as long as it is, order diazepam online.

The book’s best bit of silliness comes when Gubb, hard at work on a case, meets Syrilla Madderbrook, the 1,000-pound fat lady in a traveling carnival, who will become his true love. Their romance continues throughout the course of several cases, as she continually writes to him to let him know how much weight she has lost. (They are both thrilled when she makes it all the way down to 950.)

I don’t think anyone should sit down with the intention of reading all 17 of these stories in a row. Buy diazepam, I dipped into them at the rate of about two a week and derived just enough pleasure out of them to keep my enthusiasm and hope up whenever I began a new one. They’re not great by any stretch, but they are interesting examples of early detective-fiction parody.

And lest you think I’m just being snobby or don’t really respond favorably to antiquated humor, let me repeat for you one of my all-time favorite one-liners, from a contemporary of Twain’s who signed his work Josh Billings: “There is only one good substitute for the endearments of a sister, and that is the endearments of some other fellow's sister.”

And with that I bid you a fond farewell.

Farewell. —Doug Bentin

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Tom Johnson July 16, 2010 at 7:24 am

Humm, that’s one I never heard of, Doug. I would have probably picked it up for such a neat looking jacket though, if I’d ran across it. Thanks for the review!

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