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The Club of Queer Trades |
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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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Reviewer: TheBookworm - 4/25/2008 5:01Subject: Great stories and a fine reader! A series of short story gems with a single theme. Excellent reading! Thank you, David. (TheBookworm, Manchester, UK). |
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Reviewer: Philippe Horak - 5/11/2008 13:14 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: trail_runnr - 7/19/2008 19:21Subject: 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. |
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Reviewer: Apt411 - 2/22/2009 4:51 Subject: Summary Great book! |
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Reviewer: Marc4UCB - 5/14/2009 17:33 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. |
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