The Club of Queer Trades

Name: The Club of Queer Trades
Author: G. K. Chesterton

G. K. Chesterton

Six linked stories about a club whose members all earn their living by a trade of their own invention, and the baffled narrators and the retired judge, Basil Grant, who stumble on them. Chesterton's light romance of ingenious absurdity, in the vein of Father Brown's world before the priest.

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