The Club of Queer Trades

Résumé du livre

'Cherub' Swinburne and his friend Basil Grant are drawn, via Basil's detective brother Rupert, into the strange case of Major Brown. Having devoted his half-pay retirement to the cultivation of his beloved pansies, the soldier chances to peer over the wall into next door's garden - only to see that the blooms in his neighbour's flowerbed spell out the words 'DEATH TO MAJOR BROWN'! This is their first encounter with the bizarre Club of Queer Trades - an association of those who make their living by extraordinary and entirely new means - but it will not be the last...