Banquets of the Black Widowers

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Banquets of the Black Widowers
Author Isaac Asimov
Country United States
Language English
Series Black Widowers
Genre(s) Mystery short stories
Publisher Doubleday
Publication date 1984
Media type Print (Hardcover)
Pages 212 pp
ISBN ISBN 0-385-19541-9
Preceded by Casebook of the Black Widowers
Followed by Puzzles of the Black Widowers

Banquets of the Black Widowers is a collection of mystery short stories by science fiction author Isaac Asimov featuring his fictional club of mystery solvers, the Black Widowers. It was first published in hardcover by Doubleday in 1984, and in paperback by the Fawcett Crest imprint of Ballantine Books in June 1986.

This book is the fourth of the six books featuring the Black Widowers. It collects twelve stories by Asimov, together with a general introduction and an afterword following each story by the author. Each story involves the club members' knowledge of trivia.

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  • "Introduction"
  • "Sixty Million Trillion Combinations"
  • "The Woman in the Bar"
  • "The Driver"
  • "The Good Samaritan"
  • "The Year of the Action"
  • "Can You Prove It?"
  • "The Phoenician Bauble"
  • "A Monday in April"
  • "Neither Brute Nor Human"
  • "The Redhead"
  • "The Wrong House"
  • "The Intrusion"

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Mystery collections by Isaac Asimov
Black Widowers
Tales of the Black Widowers (1974) • More Tales of the Black Widowers (1976) • Casebook of the Black Widowers (1980) • Banquets of the Black Widowers (1984) • Puzzles of the Black Widowers (1990) • The Return of the Black Widowers (2003)
Other Mysteries
Asimov's Mysteries (1968) • The Union Club Mysteries (1980) • The Disappearing Man and Other Mysteries (1985) • The Best Mysteries of Isaac Asimov (1986)
List of short stories by Isaac Asimov