Bibliography of Ellis Parker Butler

Betty Bliss

	American Girl April, 1934 Click for larger image

1934

1. American Girl (April, 1934)   "The Detective Club" A Betty Bliss story. Illustrated by Leslie Turner. "Betty Bliss has an idea which is destined to make history in Westcote, the town where she and her best friends live." p 8-10, 46, 48.  [HARPER]
2. _____ (May, 1934)   "The Stolen Mascot" A Betty Bliss story. "Betty Bliss of the Tenth Street Yard Detectives follows a complicated clue." Illustrations by Leslie Turner. p 11-13, 42-43.  [HARPER]
3. _____ (September, 1934)   "The Flat-Tire Mystery" A Betty Bliss story. Illustrations by Leslie Turner. "The boys always laughed at the 'Tenth Street Yard Detective Club,' but when Superintendent Betty Bliss found a real crime, they did their best to help." The name "Ellis Parker Butler" appears on the cover. p 20-22, 44-45.  [HARPER]

1935

4. American Girl (January, 1935)   "The Boiled Ham Mystery" A Betty Bliss story. "Betty Bliss and the Detective Club are called in to work on a burglary which baffles the police." Illustrated by Leslie Turner. p 16-18, 32.  [HARPER]
5. _____ (March, 1935)   "The White Rabbit Mystery" A Betty Bliss story. "There wasn't a crime in the neighborhood for the Detective Club to solve till Art's rabbits vanished." Illustrations by Leslie Turner. p 16-18, 42-43.  [HARPER]
6. _____ (August, 1935)   "The Thirty-Nine Dimes Mystery" A Betty Bliss story. "The Detective Club goes sleuthing once again and enables innocence to triumph." Illustrated by Leslie Turner. p 5-8, 45.  [HARPER]

1936

7. American Girl (August, 1936)   "The Red Hand Bag Mystery" A story. Illustrated by Leslie Turner. "Will Betty Bliss and the Detective Club solve this baffling new riddle?" Volume 19. Number 8. p18-19, 38-39.  [HARPER]

	American Girl September, 1936 Click for larger image

8. _____ (September, 1936)   "The Goldfish Mystery" A Betty Bliss story. "Betty Bliss's Detective Club is called upon to solve a new mystery with a curious quirk in it." Illustrated by Leslie Turner. p 21-22, 45-46.  [HARPER]
9. _____ (November, 1936)   "The White Blackbird Mystery" A Betty Bliss story. "Betty Bliss's Detective Club is faced with a new and baffling mystery which calls forth all of their ingenuity and skill before a solution is reached." Illustrated by Leslie Turner. p 19-20, 39, 42-3.  [HARPER]

1937

10. American Girl (April, 1937)   "The Hurry-Up Mystery" A Betty Bliss story. "The Detective Club once again relies on Betty Bliss's quick eye for a solution." Illustrated by Leslie Turner. p 17-19, 39, 41-3.  [CHAPIN, HARPER]
11. _____ (May, 1937)   "The Red Avengers' Mystery" A Betty Bliss story. "A missing dog and a ransom note keep Betty Bliss and the Detective Club busy trying to solve." Illustrated by Leslie Turner. p 18-9, 49-50.  [CHAPIN, HARPER]

1938

12. American Girl (March, 1938)   "The Locked Drawer Mystery" A story. "Betty Bliss and her fellow detectives solve their last case -- an announcement that causes the Editors of The American Girl sorrow and regret, for the death, last September, of Ellis Parker Butler will be a real and continuing loss to all readers of the magazine." Illustrated by Leslie Turner. p 6-13, 24-31.  [HARPER]

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