The Club of Queer Trades
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The Club of Queer Trades

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Gilbert Keith Chesterton Other

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A semi-parody of Detective fiction, published in 1904.
Each story in this collection is centered 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"). To gain admittance one must have invented a unique means of earning a living and the subsequent trade being the main source of income.

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The conversation of Rupert Grant had two great elements of

interest--first, the long fantasias of detective deduction in

which he was engaged, and, second, his genuine romantic interest

in the life of London. His brother Basil said of him: "His

reasoning is particularly cold and clear, and invariably leads

him……

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