Club of Queer Trades (Wordsworth Classics)
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From the back cover:
"Eccentric sleuth, Basil Grant is deftly protrayed by Chesterton: mystic, enigmatic and often considered mad by his brother Rupert - the over-zealous private eye - and by Charles Swinburne, gullible narrator of the six tales. His methods of detection mystify, but his intuition is sure amd invariably leads to the Club of Queer Trades, the existence of which 'makes a man feel what a man should feel, that he is still in the childhood of the world'.
"These ingenious stories are redolent with mystery, humour, and a surreal quality that has timeless appeal."
"Eccentric sleuth, Basil Grant is deftly protrayed by Chesterton: mystic, enigmatic and often considered mad by his brother Rupert - the over-zealous private eye - and by Charles Swinburne, gullible narrator of the six tales. His methods of detection mystify, but his intuition is sure amd invariably leads to the Club of Queer Trades, the existence of which 'makes a man feel what a man should feel, that he is still in the childhood of the world'.
"These ingenious stories are redolent with mystery, humour, and a surreal quality that has timeless appeal."
