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Librivox recording of The Club of Queer Trades by G. K. Chesterton.
Read by David Barnes
A collection of six wonderfully quirky detective stories, featuring the 'mystic' former judge Basil Grant. Each story reveals a practitioner of an entirely new profession, and member of the Club of Queer Trades. (Summary by David Barnes)
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This audio is part of the collection: LibriVox
Artist/Composer: G. K. Chesterton
Source: Librivox recording of a public-domain text
Keywords: librivox; literature; short stories; detective; mystery
Creative Commons license: Public Domain
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| Audio Files | 128Kbps MP3 | Ogg Vorbis | 64Kbps MP3 |
| 1 - The Tremendous Adventures of Major Brown | 52 MB | 29 MB | 26 MB |
| 2 - The Painful Fall of a Great Reputation | 35 MB | 20 MB | 17 MB |
| 3 - The Awful Reason of the Vicar's Visit | 41 MB | 23 MB | 20 MB |
| 4 - The Singular Speculation of the House-Agent | 46 MB | 26 MB | 23 MB |
| 5 - The Noticeable Conduct of Professor Chadd | 40 MB | 23 MB | 20 MB |
| 6 - The Eccentric Seclusion of the Old Lady | 52 MB | 30 MB | 26 MB |
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Reviewer: Marc4UCB - 
- May 14, 2009
Subject: anti-Sherlock Holmes
This is an anti-Sherlock Holmes collection of detective stories. The Honorable Justice Basil Grant is everything that Holms is not, good humored, intuitive, and compassionate and more than a bit nutty. It is quite witty. It is riddled with perceptive criticism and observations about modern life which I found very relevant even today although it was written more than a century ago. I would say it is good not great. The main fault lies in the predictability of the stories which is inevitable given the central conceit of the collection. So to that extent it does not work so well as a mystery. But as parody, humor, wit and social criticism it excels.
Reviewer: Apt411 - - February 22, 2009
Subject: Summary
Great book!
Reviewer: trail_runnr - - July 19, 2008
Subject: The Club of Queer Trades
This may start off a little slow, but it is well worth staying with and listening to all of the stories. They all seem to have a twist which reminded me of the title.
Reviewer: Philippe Horak - - May 11, 2008
Subject: A lively recording
In "The Club of Queer Trades" the detective, Rupert Grant, is a Sherlock Holmes-like private eye who investigates crimes and chases crooks with great self-assuredness in his powers of deduction. But he is always wrong. The hero of these stories is not Rupert, but his older brother, Basil Grant, a retired judge. In each case, Basil proves to Rupert hat there has been no crime and no crooks!
The stories are funny and entertaining and they are very well read by David Barnes. Many thanks for this excellent performance.
Reviewer: TheBookworm - - April 25, 2008
Subject: Great stories and a fine reader!
A series of short story gems with a single theme. Excellent reading! Thank you, David. (TheBookworm, Manchester, UK).