pdf ï Casebook of the Black Widowers à Isaac Asimov
Et 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 euation of Christmas and Halloween an ancient symbo These 12 stories consist of a “club” of men called the Black Widowers who meet oncemonth for conversation and solving problems Male black widow spiders eat their spouses so needless to say the men don’t invite their wives Each month one man is the host who may invite a guest of his choice In each story the guest is asked to justify his existence Inevitably one of the men or the guest comes up with a problem which the men the guest and the waiter Henry who has also become a member of the club must solve It is often Henry who solves the problem after listening to the other men discuss the caseThe stories are easy to read make one think a bit and are moderately interesting I personally didn’t really enjoy the stories I felt the “solutions” to the problems were far fetched or didn’t make a lot of sense The stories did make me think a bit so for that they weren’t so bad
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Casebook of the Black WidowersEvery 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 y In this collection of short mysteries Asimov showed the ability to create clever and complex plots capable of keeping you turning the page if only to find the solution His characters are thin and forgettable but the stories will keep you compulsively turning the page and short enough to encourage just one read