Puzzles Of The Black Widowers
By (Author) Isaac Asimov
Transworld Publishers Ltd
Bantam Books (Transworld Publishers a division of the Random House Group)
1st July 1991
1st April 1991
United Kingdom
General
Fiction
813.54
Paperback
272
Width 106mm, Height 178mm, Spine 16mm
142g
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.
Isaac Asimov was one of the world's best known and respected science fiction writers. He died in 1992.