![]() Edition: Year of publication: 1972 Sequence of publisher: Ellery queen's mystery magazine |
Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, Vol. 59, No. 1. Whole No. 338, January 1972Author: Edward D Hoch Isaac Asimov Avram Davidson Lloyd Biggle Jr James Holding Joe Gores Michael Gilbert Miriam Allen deFord Robert Edward Eckels David Ely Henry Reymond Fitzwalter Keating Lika Van Ness John Pierce Joan Richter Alan K Young Genre: Detectives Read a fragment illustrations Annotation: Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, Vol. 59, No. 1. Whole No. 338, January 1972 The Acquisitive Chuckle by Isaac Asimov©1971 by Isaac Asimov. The first of a new series by Isaac Asimov The first of a brand-new series — about the Black Widowers and the piquant problems that challenged them monthly… In this opening adventure Bartram, the private detective, tells the Black Widowers the details of an old case that the detective had never been able to solve. Could the five members — patent lawyer Geoffrey Avalon, code expert Thomas Trumbull, writer Emmanuel Rubin, organic chemist James Drake, and artist Mario Gonzalo — could they solve the mystery?… Can you? ❖ Hanley Bartram was the guest, that night, of the Black Widowers, who met monthly in their quiet haunt and vowed death to any female who intruded — for that one night each month, at any rate. The number of attendees varied: on this... |
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