''Casebook of the Black Widowers'' is a collection of
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short stories by American author
Isaac Asimov
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, featuring his fictional
club of mystery solvers, the
Black Widowers. It was first published in hardcover by
Doubleday in January 1980 and in paperback by the Fawcett Crest imprint of
Ballantine Books
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in March 1981.
This book is the third of six in the Black Widowers series, based on a literary dining club he belonged to known as the
Trap Door Spiders.
[Asimov 1994, ''I. Asimov'', chapter "120. 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 It collects twelve stories by Asimov, nine reprinted from mystery magazines and three previously unpublished, together with a general introduction and an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 by the author following each story. Each story involves the club members' knowledge of
trivia
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Contents
*"Introduction"
*"The Cross of Lorraine"
*"The Family Man"
*"The Sports Page"
*"Second Best"
*"The Missing Item"
*"The Next Day"
*"Irrelevance!"
*"None So Blind"
*"The Backward Look"
*"What Time Is It?"
*"Middle Name"
*"To the Barest"
Notes
External links
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Mystery short story collections by Isaac Asimov
1980 short story collections
Doubleday (publisher) books
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