The Return of the Black Widowers
- The Return of the Black Widowers
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name = The Return 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 = Carroll & Graf
release_date = 2003
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media_type = Print (Hardcover)
pages = 304 pp
isbn = ISBN 0-786-71248-1
preceded_by = Puzzles of the Black Widowers
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"The Return 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 Carroll & Graf in November 2003.
This book is the sixth and last of the six books featuring the Black Widowers. It was assembled and edited after Asimov's death by Charles Ardai, and collects the last six stories Asimov wrote for the series, preceded by an introduction by Harlan Ellison, ten stories selected by the editor as the best from the previous Black Widowers collections, and a homage by William Brittain, and followed by another reprinted tale featuring a fictionalized version of Ellison, a new Black Widowers tale by Ardai, and an afterword by Asimov on the creation of the series drawn from his autobiography "I, Asimov".
Contents
*"Introduction" (Harlan Ellison)
*"The Acquisitive Chuckle" (from "Tales of the Black Widowers")
*"Early Sunday Morning" (from "Tales of the Black Widowers")
*"The Obvious Factor" (from "Tales of the Black Widowers")
*"The Iron Gem" (from "More Tales of the Black Widowers")
*"To the Barest" (from "Casebook of the Black Widowers")
*"Sixty Million Trillion Combinations" (from "Banquets of the Black Widowers")
*"The Wrong House" (from "Banquets of the Black Widowers")
*"The Redhead" (from "Banquets of the Black Widowers")
*"Triple Devil" (from "Puzzles of the Black Widowers")
*"The Men Who Read Isaac Asimov" (William Brittain)
*"Northwestward"
*"Yes, But Why"
*"Lost In a Space Warp"
*"Police at the Door"
*"The Haunted Cabin"
*"The Guest's Guest"
*"The Woman in the Bar" (from "Banquets of the Black Widowers")
*"The Last Story" (Charles Ardai)
*"Afterword"
External links
* " [http://homepage.mac.com/jhjenkins/Asimov/Books/Book512.html The Return of the Black Widowers] " - a book review by John H. Jenkins
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