# The Club of Queer Trades — Character guide

> Key figures in The Club of Queer Trades by G. K. Chesterton.

- [Basil Grant](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_club_of_queer_trades_se/characters/basil_grant.md): Basil lives among swords, armour, and fantastic books in a garret above the slums, welcoming any human face but needing none. His brother Rupert dismisses him as a dreamer, yet Basil's legal mind and unsettling habit of 
- [Rupert Grant](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_club_of_queer_trades_se/characters/rupert_grant.md): Rupert is the working detective of the pair, brisk, self-assured, and fond of announcing a culprit before the facts have finished arriving. He loves his brother but cannot quite believe that a man who never leaves his at
- [Major Brown](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_club_of_queer_trades_se/characters/major_brown.md): Major Brown Rabelais is a solid, unremarkable man of routine until strange flowers, stranger visitors, and a plot against his life convince him he is being hunted. What he cannot see is that the whole affair is a service
- [Lieutenant Drummond Keith](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_club_of_queer_trades_se/characters/lieutenant_keith.md): Lieutenant Keith conducts business with a polish and precision that reads as sinister to anyone expecting an ordinary estate agent. He shows houses at odd hours, says unsettling things, and seems to be playing a game no 
- [P. G. Northover](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_club_of_queer_trades_se/characters/p_g_northover.md): Northover presents himself with the calm of someone who has nothing to hide, yet his business touches on the most delicate thing a man owns: his good name. He moves through the story as both suspect and benefactor, and t
- [Mr. Montmorency](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_club_of_queer_trades_se/characters/mr_montmorency.md): Montmorency arrives with the air of a man who has seen something he cannot explain and is not sure he wants to. His account of a clergyman's strange behaviour sets the brothers arguing before the facts are even in. He ma
- [Reverend Mr. Shorter](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_club_of_queer_trades_se/characters/reverend_shorter.md): Reverend Mr. Shorter arrives at the Club's dim Norfolk Street offices as a soft-spoken visitor in spectacles, the sort of caller no one would think to question. Yet his errand turns on a secret he can barely bring himsel
- [Mr. Bingham](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_club_of_queer_trades_se/characters/mr_bingham.md): A meek man entangled in the affairs of Professor Chadd's club.
- [Burrows](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_club_of_queer_trades_se/characters/burrows.md): A large man involved in the strange seclusion of an old lady.
- [Lord Beaumont](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_club_of_queer_trades_se/characters/lord_beaumont.md): An elderly nobleman whose household harbors a queer trade secret.
- [Greenwood](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_club_of_queer_trades_se/characters/greenwood.md): A bewildered man who seeks Basil's help with a reputation problem.
- [Sir Walter Cholmondeliegh](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_club_of_queer_trades_se/characters/sir_walter_cholmondeliegh.md): A jolly old baronet who appears in the house agent's story.
- [Wimpole](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_club_of_queer_trades_se/characters/wimpole.md): A man who assists in the strange case of the great reputation.
- [Captain Fraser](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_club_of_queer_trades_se/characters/captain_fraser.md): A captain who appears in the house agent's peculiar speculation.
- [Dr. Colman](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_club_of_queer_trades_se/characters/dr_colman.md): A doctor who appears in the story of the great reputation.

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