The Club of Queer Trades

G K Chesterton; Martin Gardner; Martin Gardner
Dover Publications
9780486255347
0-486-25534-4

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.

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for physiognomy, deduction for intuition, method for madness, he moves unerringly to his goal.