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Title: Puzzles of the Black
Widowers
Series: The Black Widowers #5
Authors:
Isaac Asimov
Rating: 3 of 5 Stars
Genre:
Mystery
Pages: 144
Words:
68K
Publish: 1990
I felt that I was being generous with giving this 3stars. Most of the stories felt like Henry (the waiter and the guy who always solves the mystery) just pulled a random solution out of a hat. Nothing that he stated was categorically fact like in previous collections. I don’t mind admitting that it might have been me, but I don’t think so. I think Asimov was reaching the end of his rope and it was showing. While the stories were written from 1985 to 1990, the collection wasn’t published until 1990 and Asimov died in ‘92.
There is one more post-humus collection of the Black Widowers. Most of the stories are reprints, but I believe there are a couple of new ones in it. I plan on focusing on those. The fact that I’m spending as much time talking about the next book as I did about this one should tell you how milque-toast this particular collection was.
★★★☆☆
From Wikipedia.org
Introduction
"The Fourth Homonym" (1985)
"Unique Is Where You Find It" (1985)
"The Lucky Piece" (1990)
"Triple Devil" (1985)
"Sunset on the Water" (1986)
"Where Is He?" (1986)
"The Old Purse" (1987)
"The Quiet Place" (1988)
"The Four-Leaf Clover" (1990)
"The Envelope" (1989)
"The Alibi" (1989)
"The Recipe" (1990)
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