Tales of Mystery from G. K. Chesterton: Containing The Club of Queer Trades, The Man Who Was Thursday, and The Man Who Knew Too Much

The Club of Queer Trades is a collection of stories by G. K. Chesterton first published in 1905. Each story in the collection is centered on a person who is making his living by some novel and extraordinary means (a "queer trade", using the word "queer" in the sense of "peculiar"). To gain admittance one must have invented a unique means of earning a living and the subsequent trade being the main source of income. The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare is a novel first published in 1908. The book is sometimes referred to as a metaphysical thriller. The Man Who Knew Too Much and other stories (1922) is a book of detective stories published in 1922. The book contains twelve stories, the first eight of which are about The Man Who Knew Too Much, while the final four are individual stories featuring separate heroes/detectives.