The Club of Queer Trades - G.K. Chesterton

Preposterous, entertaining, epigrammatic and dubiously right-wing short stories from Chesterton, the master of the genre. The tales are also a spoof of Sherlock Holmes - the logical brother attempts Holmesian deduction but misses the point, whereas Our Hero uses intuition and moral judgement to successfully solve the mysteries. It's all lots of fun.