More Tales of the Black Widowers

The Black Widowers are a dining club. At each meeting a member or a guest introduces a challenging problem. In a splendid first volume, twelve seemingly baffling mysteries confounded the members, and to solve them needed all the brilliance of their resident Sherlock Holmes, the waiter Henry. Now, to the undoubted delight of all Asimov fans, here are another dozen. Why is an extravagant offer made for an almost valueless meteorite? How does the striking of a match solve a big embezzlement case? Why does an editor suppress a seemingly innocuous article? How does the pronunciation of one of the moon's craters solve yet another problem? And then there's a challenge involving the 'real' Sherlock Holmes - and the possible contents of a treatise by the sinister Professor Moriarty. These stories are something refreshingly different in the sphere of detective fiction - and another triumph for Asimov.

Published 1977.

Binding of book is intact. Moderate shelfwear, foxing, creasing and few stains on dust jacket. Some darkening and slight shelfwear on covers of book. Heavy tanning and foxing on edges of book. Annotations in pen and some foxing on endpapers. Moderate foxing on certain pages.