Casebook of the Black Widowers
- Casebook of the Black Widowers
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name = Casebook of the Black Widowers
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author = Isaac Asimov
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country = United States
language = English
series = Black Widowers
genre = Mystery short stories
publisher = Doubleday
release_date = 1980
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media_type = Print (Hardcover)
pages = 182 pp
isbn = ISBN 0-449-24384-2
preceded_by = More Tales of the Black Widowers
followed_by = Banquets of the Black Widowers
"Casebook of the Black Widowers" is a collection of mystery short stories by science fiction author Isaac Asimov featuring his fictional club of mystery solvers, the Black Widowers. It was first published in hardcover by Doubleday in 1980, and in paperback by the Fawcett Crest imprint of Ballantine Books in March 1981.
This book is the third of the six books featuring the Black Widowers. It collects twelve stories by Asimov, most reprinted from mystery magazines and a few previously unpublished, together with a general introduction and an afterword following each story by the author. Each story involves the club members' knowledge of trivia.
Contents
*"Introduction"
*"The Cross of Lorraine"
*"The Family Man"
*"The Sports Page"
*"Second Best"
*"The Missing Item"
*"The Next Day"
*"Irrelevance!"
*"None So Blind"
*"The Backward Look"
*"What Time Is It?"
*"Middle Name"
*"To the Barest"
External links
* " [http://homepage.mac.com/jhjenkins/Asimov/Books/Book212.html Casebook of the Black Widowers] " - a book review by John H. Jenkins
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