1990 collection of mystery short stories by Isaac Asimov
Puzzles of the Black Widowers
Cover of first edition, 1990
Author
Isaac Asimov
Cover artist
James Steinberg
Language
English
Series
Black Widowers
Genre
Mystery
Publisher
Doubleday
Publication date
1990
Publication place
United States
Media type
Print (hardcover)
Pages
253
ISBN
0-385-26264-7
OCLC
19625924
Dewey Decimal
813/.54 20
LC Class
PS3551.S5 P8 1990
Preceded by
Banquets of the Black Widowers
Followed by
The Return of the Black Widowers
Puzzles 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 January 1990, and in paperback by Bantam Books the same year. The first British edition was issued in hardcover by Doubleday (UK) in April 1990, and the first British paperback edition by Bantam UK in April 1991.[1]
This book is the fifth 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Trap Door Spiders.[2] It collects twelve stories by Asimov, nine reprinted from mystery magazines and three previously unpublished, together with a general introduction and an afterword by the author following each story. Each story involves the club members' knowledge of trivia.
^Puzzles of the Black Widowers title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
^Asimov 1994, I. Asimov, chapter "120. The Trap Door Spiders".
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