Casebook of the Black Widowers

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Casebook of the Black Widowers

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Author(s):

Isaac Asimov

First Pub:

1980

Genre(s):

Anthology; Mystery

First Read:

1991

Times Read:

1 time

Rating:

Chapters:

See 13

Introduction

1 - The Cross of Lorraine

2 - The Family Man

3 - The Sports Page

4 - Second Best

5 - The Missing Item

6 - The Next Day

7 - Irrelevance!

8 - None So Blind

9 - The Backward Look

10 - What Time Is It?

11 - Middle Name

12 - To the Barest

Internal ID:

132

Series:

<- More Tales of the Black Widowers - Banquets of the Black Widowers ->

Black Widowers*

#3 of 6

Black Widowers*

This is a series of books featuring collections of short stories that originally featured in magazines.

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1) Tales of the Black Widowers
2) More Tales of the Black Widowers
3) Casebook of the Black Widowers
4) Banquets of the Black Widowers
5) Puzzles of the Black Widowers
6) The Return of the Black Widowers

Copyright:

Dedication:

to Alex Zupnik, Don Laventhal and Bob Zicklin,
who labor to keep me out of trouble.

First Sentence:

Emmanuel Rubin did not, as a general rule, ever allow a look of relief to cross his face.

Last Sentence:

May contain spoilers

Henry considered, sighed, and said, "I accept, sir, with thanks."

Comments:

Comments may contain spoilers

"The Cross of Lorraine" - originaly published in EQMM. Copyright © 1976 by Isaac Asimov.
"The Family Man" - originaly published in EQMM. Copyright © 1976 by Isaac Asimov.
"The Sports Page" - originaly published in EQMM. Copyright © 1977 by Isaac Asimov.
"The Missing Item" - originaly published in IASFM. Copyright © 1977 by Isaac Asimov.
"The Next Day" - originaly published in EQMM. Copyright © 1978 by Isaac Asimov.
"Irrelevance!" - originaly published in EQMM. Copyright © 1979 by Isaac Asimov.
"None So Blind" - originaly published in EQMM. Copyright © 1979 by Isaac Asimov.
"The Backward Look" - originaly published in IASFM. Copyright © 1979 by Isaac Asimov.
"To the Barest" - originaly published in EQMM. Copyright © 1979 by Isaac Asimov.

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Added: 29-Dec-2002

Last Updated: 04-Mar-2023

Publications

01-Dec-1983

Fawcett Books

Mass Market Paperback

Date Issued:

Cir 01-Dec-1983

Format:

Mass Market Paperback

Cover Price:

$2.50

Pages*:

221

Cover Link(s):

World Cat

amazon.com

Internal ID:

2569

Publisher:

Fawcett Books

ISBN:

0-449-24384-2

ISBN-13:

978-0-449-24384-8

Printing:

Country:

United States

Language:

English

A DOZEN MASTERPIECES OF MYSTERY, MURDER, AND UNEARTHLY DETECTION!

Every month, the Black Widowers convene for sumptuous food, fine wine, and a cosmically baffling mystery. Attended by Henry, the all-knowing waiter, these gentle rogues ponder such imponderables as:

• the one-syllable middle name that represents what every schoolboy knows, yet doesn't... • a murder by solar eclipse very far out in space... • a Soviet spy's dying message utilizing a Scabble set and a newspaper sports page... • a satanic cult leader's Martian connection... • a computer criminal's strange equation of Christmas and Halloween... • an ancient symbol that provides the key to a woman's mysterious disappearance...

Dip into these wonderfully wizardly concoctions of surprising murder and Asmovian logic that have delighted readers of Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine and Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine.

Cover:

Notes and Comments:

First Fawcett Crest Printing: March 1981
Third printing based on the number line.

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01-Oct-1985

Fawcett Books

Mass Market Paperback

Date Issued:

Cir 01-Oct-1985

Format:

Mass Market Paperback

Cover Price:

$2.95

Pages*:

222

Read:

Once

Cover Link(s):

World Cat

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Internal ID:

540

Publisher:

Fawcett Books

ISBN:

0-449-21086-3

ISBN-13:

978-0-449-21086-4

Printing:

Country:

United States

Language:

English

Cover:

Notes and Comments:

First Fawcett Crest Printing: March 1981
First Ballantine Books Edition: November 1983
Third printing: October 1985

Author(s)

Isaac Asimov
Birth: 02 Jan 1920 Petrovichi, Russia
Death: 06 Apr 1992 New York, USA

Notes:

Contracted AIDS from a blood transfusion during a triple bypass heart surgery.

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