Detective Fillbee Guards the Home Front

Due to a hard to pronounce last name, Phillip Wyatt Belakapski is nicknamed "Fillbee" by his grade school classmates. Having started a year early and skipped sixth grade, Fillbee graduates at sixteen with Battle Lake, Minnesota, High School's 1943 senior class. Young men and his classmates are enlisting in the military service to do their part in World War II. Fillbee wants to do his part and tries to enlist.
Military doctors find he has one leg an inch shorter. They classified him 4f, the military way of saying restricted from service due to health or physical condition. Small of stature at sixteen and handicapped, Fillbee is unable to find full time work other than as a part-time dogcatcher, one of six in Ottertail County. He looks at his interests, drawing faces and reading detective stories. Deciding to be a detective, Fillbee fills out the necessary paper work to become a licensed Minnesota Detective.
Armed with his license, Fillbee fills out the necessary Ottertail County and Battle Lake paper work to open a Detective Office on his parent's enclosed front porch. The book offers the reader a chance to read his 1943 case journal and discover how young Fillbee earns a chance to serve.