The Club of Queer Trades: Stories of Impossible Professions

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.

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E-bog: 19. august 2026