''The Best Mysteries of Isaac Asimov'' is a collection of
mystery
Mystery, The Mystery, Mysteries or The Mysteries may refer to:
Arts, entertainment, and media Fictional characters
*Mystery, a cat character in ''Emily the Strange''
Films
* ''Mystery'' (2012 film), a 2012 Chinese drama film
* ''Mystery'' ( ...
short stories by American author
Isaac Asimov. It was first published in hardcover by
Doubleday in 1986, and in paperback by the Fawcett Crest imprint of
Ballantine Books in September 1987.
The book contains thirty-one stories by Asimov, including fifteen featuring his fictional
club
Club may refer to:
Arts, entertainment, and media
* ''Club'' (magazine)
* Club, a '' Yie Ar Kung-Fu'' character
* Clubs (suit), a suit of playing cards
* Club music
* "Club", by Kelsea Ballerini from the album ''kelsea''
Brands and enterprises ...
of mystery solvers, the
Black Widowers The Black Widowers is a fictional men-only dining club created by Isaac Asimov for a series of sixty-six mystery stories that he started writing in 1971. Most of the stories were first published in ''Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine'', though a few ...
, nine of his
Union Club mysteries, and seven others (one featuring his science fictional detective Wendell Urth and two featuring his boy detective Larry). Most were reprinted from mystery magazines.
Contents
*Black Widowers
**"The Obvious Factor"
**"The Pointing Finger"
**"Out of Sight"
**"Yankee Doodle Went to Town"
**"Quicker Than the Eye"
**"The Three Numbers"
**"The One and Only East"
**"The Cross of Lorraine"
**"The Next Day"
**"What Time Is It?"
**"Middle Name"
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Sixty Million Trillion Combinations "Sixty Million Trillion Combinations" is a short mystery story by American writer Isaac Asimov. It was first published in the May 5, 1980, issue of ''Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine'' under the title "64 Million Trillion Combinations," and reprinted ...
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**"The Good Samaritan"
**"Can You Prove It?"
**"The Redhead"
*Union Club
**"He Wasn't There"
**"Hide and Seek"
**"Dollars and Cents"
**"The Sign"
**"Getting the Combination"
**"The Library Book"
**"Never Out of Sight"
**"The Magic Umbrella"
**"The Speck"
*Other
**"
The Key"
**"A Problem of Numbers"
**"The Little Things"
**"Halloween"
**"The Thirteenth Day of Christmas"
**"
The Key Word"
**"Nothing Might Happen"
External links
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Mystery short story collections by Isaac Asimov
1986 short story collections
Doubleday (publisher) books
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