The Club of Queer Trades

The Club of Queer Trades is a collection of stories by G. K. Chesterton. Each story in the collection is centered on a person who is making his living by some novel and extraordinary means (a queer trade). To gain admittance one must have invented a unique means of earning a living and the subsequent trade being the main source of income.A collection of related short stories by British author G. K. Chesterton. Each story is centered on a person who is making his living by some novel and extraordinary means (a queer trade). To gain admittance to the Club one must have a unique queer trade as principal source of income. Cherub Swinburne describes his quest for The Club of Queer Trades with his friend Basil Grant a retired judge and Rupert Grant a private detective who is Basil's younger brother. Each of the stories describes their encounter with one of the trades. In the final story Rupert Grant