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The Hard-boiled Egg (World Cultural Heritage Library)
The Hardboiled Egg - World Cultural Heritage Library Author:Ellis Parker Butler Author of more than 30 books and more than 2,000 stories, poems and essays, Ellis Parker Butler is most famous for his short story," Pigs is Pigs" in which Mike Flannery -- a bureaucratic stationmaster -- insists on levying the livestock rate for a shipment of two pet guinea pigs that soon start proliferating geometrically.* — His book, " Philo G... more »ubb: Correspondence-School Detective" was picked by none other than Ellery Queen (Queen's Quorum #61) as one of the most important detective books ever written and was later retitled, "The Hard Boiled Egg".
Butler also had great success with his "Billy Brad" stories, his "Swatty" and "Jibby Jones" series of stories for boys, and his "Betty Bliss" and his "Jo Ann" series of stories for girls.*