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Name: Casebook of the Black Widowers

Author: Isaac Asimov
Year: 1980
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Popularity: 1.5
Genres/categories: Mystery, Short Stories, Fiction, Science fiction

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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 Scrabble 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...

Contents:
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
This book is part of the "The Black Widowers" series.
Here are some other books from this series:
Tales of the Black Widowers
First published 1974
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The Return of the Black Widowers
First published 1989
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, Pop Rating:1.2/10
More Tales of the Black Widowers
First published 1976
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, Pop Rating:1.4/10
Banquets of the Black Widowers
First published 1984
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, Pop Rating:1.5/10

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