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Club of Queer Trades (Wordsworth Collection)
Club of Queer Trades - Wordsworth Collection
Author: G. K. Chesterton
And in the chaos and complexity of those perpendicular streets anything may dwell or happen, and it is in one of them, I believe, that the inquirer may find the offices of the Club of Queer Trades. It may be thought at the first glance that the name would attract and startle the passer-by, but nothing attracts or startles in these dim immense hi...  more »
ISBN-13: 9781853262609
ISBN-10: 1853262609
Publication Date: 4/1/1998
Pages: 128
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Publisher: NTC/Contemporary Publishing Company
Book Type: Paperback
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I would skip the introduction! Whoever wrote it provides the name of the narrator, which kept me guessing as I did not come across his surmane until well into the third story and his given name until much later. It is too bad that the publisher included an introduction that gives away the intended suprise at the end of the last story. An afterwood would have been more appropriate.

The book (written in 1905) is an interesting set of stories, separate in themselves, yet linked. While some are centered around a self-made detective, he is no Sherlock Holmes. It is his brother—the ex-judge—who appears to be the solver of all the mysteries. The narrator, although integral to each story, is little more than a bystander: no Dr. Watson either. In some ways it is reminiscent of Stevenson's "The Suicide Club" (written in 1882).


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