The Union Club Mysteries

The Union Club Mysteries

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name = The Union Club Mysteries
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author = Isaac Asimov
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country = United States
language = English
series = Union Club
genre = Mystery short stories
publisher = Doubleday
release_date = 1983
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media_type = Print (Hardcover)
pages = 216 pp
isbn = 0-385-18806-4
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"The Union Club Mysteries" is a collection of mystery short stories by science fiction author Isaac Asimov featuring his fictional mystery solver Griswold. It was first published in hardcover by Doubleday in 1983 and in paperback by the Fawcett Crest imprint of Ballantine Books in 1985.

The book collects thirty stories by Asimov, most reprinted from magazines and a few previously unpublished, together with a foreword and afterword by the author. Each story is set at a club known as the Union Club, in which a conversation between three members prompts a fourth member, Griswold, to tell about a mystery he has solved. The format is based on that utilized by P. G. Wodehouse in recounting his golf stories.

Contents

*"Foreword"
*"No Refuge Could Save"
*"The Telephone Number"
*"The Men Who Wouldn't Talk"
*"A Clear Shot"
*"Irresistible to Women"
*"He Wasn't There"
*"The Thin Line"
*"Mystery Tune"
*"Hide and Seek"
*"Gift"
*"Hot or Cold"
*"The Thirteenth Page"
*"1 to 999"
*"Twelve Years Old"
*"Testing, Testing!"
*"The Appleby Story"
*"Dollars and Cents"
*"Friends and Allies"
*"Which is Which?"
*"The Sign"
*"Catching the Fox"
*"Getting the Combination"
*"The Library Book"
*"The Three Goblets"
*"Spell It!"
*"Two Women"
*"Sending a Signal"
*"The Favorite Piece"
*"Half a Ghost"
*"There Was a Young Lady"
*"Afterword"

External links

* " [http://homepage.mac.com/jhjenkins/Asimov/Books/Book277.html The Union Club Mysteries] " - a book review by John H. Jenkins


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