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9 de jul. de 2014 · The Club of Queer Trades is full of whimsical short stories by the brilliant and witty English author, G.K. Chesterton. Improbable plots, marvelously funny episodes, evocative descriptions of late Victorian London distinguish delightful tales focusing on a club devoted to completely original and unusual professions.
The Club of Queer Trades. G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936) A collection of six wonderfully quirky detective stories, featuring the 'mystic' former judge Basil Grant. Each story reveals a practitioner of an entirely new profession, and member of the Club of Queer Trades. (Summary by David Barnes) Genre(s): Humorous Fiction, Detective Fiction ...
The Club of Queer Trades. Paperback – 15 Feb. 2021. by G.K. Chesterton (Author) 67. See all formats and editions. The six “Club” tales contained in this volume are an excellect near-parody of detective stories the late 19th and early 20th century (and in particular of the Sherlock Holmes stories of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle). Together, they ...
- G.K. Chesterton
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- G. K. Chesterton
7 de abr. de 2008 · In "The Club of Queer Trades" the detective, Rupert Grant, is a Sherlock Holmes-like private eye who investigates crimes and chases crooks with great self-assuredness in his powers of deduction. But he is always wrong. The hero of these stories is not Rupert, but his older brother, Basil Grant, a retired judge.
3 de dic. de 2012 · Is it a satire on technology--surely in 1905 there must have been hundreds of these new jobs happening all the time--typists, for example, or auto mechanics. The book starts off well with the adventure of Major Brown, and in fact the opening tale made me think that THE CLUB OF QUEER TRADES must been a tremendous influence on Agatha Christie's MR.
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- G. K. Chesterton
12 de may. de 2012 · This outrage turns out to have been perpetrated by a member of the Club of Queer Trades, a society whose membership requirement is that one must be the sole practitioner of one's trade. Fantastical professions succeed one another throughout the book. Basil Grant, a judge who went mad on the bench, leads a group of men on a sort of tour of the club.
- G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton
