If you happen to be a completist, like me, you may want to know the full list of compilations of Black Widower stories:Īlthough the stories are delicious morsels, they also seem jarringly outdated in spots. It’s rather like going to the restaurant that is most familiar to you, knowing exactly what is on the menu and ordering the same thing every time-not what you want for all your dining/reading, but wonderful to fall back on. I just re-read the third volume of these stories, Casebook of the Black Widowers, but it almost doesn’t matter, as we read these with the comforting knowledge that they are all intentionally formulaic. Along with a variety of novels and other short stories, his 66 “Black Widowers” stories, written between 19, may be his best-known puzzle mysteries. Not so many readers realize that Asimov was also a prolific-stop there! “prolific” anything is redundant when talking about Asimov, who published over 500 books-a prolific writer of mysteries. Isaac Asimov was best known as a science fiction writer, though many readers justly prize him for his ultra-clear writing of science fact. Home › Books › Isaac Asimov’s “Black Widowers” stories
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