Puzzles Of The Black Widowers

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Puzzles Of The Black Widowers
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Isaac Asimov
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:272
Dimensions(mm): Height 178,Width 106
Category/GenreCrime and mystery
Science fiction
ISBN/Barcode 9780553402018
ClassificationsDewey:813.54
Audience
General

Publishing Details

Publisher Transworld Publishers Ltd
Imprint Bantam Books (Transworld Publishers a division of the Random House Group)
Publication Date 1 April 1991
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

A dozen challenging and ingenious tales - including two never before published - from the Master of Mystery. Each month the Black Widowers, an urbane club of cerebral adventurers, meet at the Milano Restaurant for dinner. And each month a single guest is invited and subjected to a genial but intense grilling on the meaning of his existence. Inevitably the guest confides some puzzling question or strange occurrence in his life - the inexplicable disappearance of a good luck charm, for instance, or how a four-leaf clover can identify a traitor - tantalizing conundrums that the great Holmes himself would have enjoyed solving. When the Black Widowers are stumped (as invariably happens), they turn to their faithful waiter Henry, who serves up perfectly grilled salmon and devilishly clever answers with equal aplomb.

Author Biography

Isaac Asimov was one of the world's best known and respected science fiction writers. He died in 1992.