Casebook of the Black Widowers — Isaac Asimov

A DOZEN MASTERPIECES OF MYSTERY, MURDER, AND UNEARTHLY DETECTION!

Every month, the Black Widowers convene for° sumptuous food, fine wine, and a cosmically, baffling mystery. Attended by Henry, the all- knowing waiter, these gentle rogues ponder such imponderables as:

• the one-syllable middle name that represents what every schoolboy knows, yet doesn't... •a murder by solar eclipse very far out in space... • a Soviet spy's dying message utilizing a Scrabble set and a newspaper sports page... •a satanic cult leader's Martian connection... •a computer criminal's strange equation of Christmas and Halloween... •an ancient symbol that provides the key to a woman's mysterious disappearance...

Dip into these wonderfully wizardly concoctions of surprising murder and Asimovian logic that have delighted readers of Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine and Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine.