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Cover artist
  
Wendell Minor

Series
  
Black Widowers

Media type
  
Print (Hardcover)

Author
  
Isaac Asimov

ISBN
  
9780385083034

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Language
  
English

Publication date
  
1974

Originally published
  
June 1974

Genre
  
Mystery

Publisher
  
Doubleday

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Country
  
United States & United Kingdom

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Tales of the Black Widowers is a collection of mystery short stories by American author Isaac Asimov, featuring his fictional club of mystery solvers, the Black Widowers. It was first published in hardcover by Doubleday in June 1974, and in paperback by the Fawcett Crest imprint of Ballantine Books in August 1976. The first British edition was issued by Panther in 1976. The book has also been translated into German.

This book is the first of six that describe mysteries solved by the Black Widowers, based on a literary dining club he belonged to known as the Trap Door Spiders. It collects twelve stories by Asimov, nine reprinted from mystery magazines and three previously unpublished, together with a general introduction, and an afterword following each story by the author.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

  • "The Acquisitive Chuckle"
  • "Ph as in Phony"
  • "Truth to Tell"
  • "Go, Little Book!"
  • "Early Sunday Morning"
  • "The Obvious Factor"
  • "The Pointing Finger"
  • "Miss What?"
  • "The Lullaby of Broadway"
  • "Yankee Doodle Went to Town"
  • "The Curious Omission"
  • "Out of Sight"
  • References

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