The Club of Queer Trades: The Tremendous Adventures of Major Brown;the Painful Fall of a Great Reputation;the Awful Reason of the Vicar's Visit;the ... Lady (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics S.) - Softcover

Chesterton, G. K.

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9780140183870: The Club of Queer Trades: The Tremendous Adventures of Major Brown;the Painful Fall of a Great Reputation;the Awful Reason of the Vicar's Visit;the ... Lady (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics S.)

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ISBN 10: 0140183876 ISBN 13: 9780140183870

Publisher: Penguin Classics, 1992

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Written by a master of the tongue in cheek, G.K. Chesterton's ingenious and, above all, paradoxical stories introduce Basil Grant, a sleuth so finely portrayed as to rival Sherlock Holmes. Eschewing facts for physiognomy, deduction for intuition, method for madness, he moves unerringly to his goal.

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Synopsis:

Contains six crime stories - where no crimes are committed. Accompanied by the gullible narrator of the tales and an excitable private detective, Basil Grant deals with a lethal message written in pansies, a professor's insanity, a country vicar's predicament and other puzzling situations.

About the Author:

Gilbert Keith Chesterton, (29 May 1874 – 14 June 1936), better known as G. K. Chesterton, was an English writer, poet, philosopher, dramatist, journalist, orator, lay theologian, biographer, and literary and art critic.

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