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The Club of Queer Trades is a collection of stories by G. K. Chesterton first published in 1905. Each story in the collection is centered on a person who is making his living by some novel and extraordinary means. To gain admittance one must have invented a unique means of earning a living and the subsequent trade being the main source of income.
- Gilbert KeithGilbert Keith Chesterton
- 1905
If the Thugs set up a Strangers' Assassination Company in one of the great buildings in Norfolk Street, and sent in a mild man in spectacles to answer inquiries, no inquiries would be made. And the Club of Queer Trades reigns in a great edifice hidden like a fossil in a mighty cliff of fossils.
29 de sept. de 2022 · The Club of Queer Trades is a collection of stories by Gilbert Keith Chesterton first published in 1905. Each story in the collection is centred on a person who is making his living by some novel and extraordinary means (a "queer trade," using the word "queer" in the sense of "peculiar").
9 de oct. de 2008 · The club of queer trades : Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith), 1874-1936 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive. by. Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith), 1874-1936. Publication date. 1905. Publisher. New York and London, Harper & brothers. Collection. americana. Book from the collections of. University of Michigan. Language. English
1 de abr. de 1999 · Most Recently Updated. Feb 26, 2021. Copyright Status. Public domain in the USA. Downloads. 212 downloads in the last 30 days. Project Gutenberg eBooks are always free! Free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by volunteers.
The Club of Queer Trades. This excellent half-parody of the detective story (particularly of the Sherlock Holmes stories) is a good introduction to the whimsical, off-beat style of G. K. Chesterton, one of the most unusual authors of British detective fiction of the late 19th and early 20th century. Chesterton, who was for a time the president ...
Contains six crime stories - where no crimes are committed. Accompanied by the gullible narrator of the tales and an excitable private detective, Basil Grant deals with a lethal message written in...
