The Club of Queer Trades: Stories of Impossible Professions
Aug 2026 · Aeneas Press
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Complete and unabridged, with 58 full-page plates by Spencer Gore, Robert Bevan and John Lavery. Basil Grant, a retired judge, and his brother investigate a series of impossible situations — a man paid to be a professional detainer, an agency that supplies real adventures to bored gentlemen — and the solution is always that someone has invented a trade nobody had thought of. Chesterton was six foot four and twenty stone and created Father Brown; this 1905 book is his first detective work and his most purely delighted. Fifty-eight plates of twilight streets, moonlit gardens and autumn mist by painters including John Atkinson Grimshaw and John Lavery match these tales of odd trades pursued after dark.
Complete and unabridged, with 58 full-page plates by Spencer Gore, Robert Bevan and John Lavery. Basil Grant, a retired judge, and his brother investigate a series of impossible situations — a man paid to be a professional detainer, an agency that supplies real adventures to bored gentlemen — and...
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Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874–1936) was an English writer and journalist. He contributed to newspapers and magazines in London and is the author of the story collections The Club of Queer Trades and The Man Who Knew Too Much.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874–1936) was an English writer and journalist. He contributed to newspapers and magazines in London and is the author of the story collections The Club of Queer Trades and The Man Who Knew Too Much.
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