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The Return of the Black Widowers (The Black Widowers, #6)The Return of the Black Widowers by Isaac Asimov
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Isaac Asimov is known for writing science fiction books but he dabbled in different types of genres. He was a professor of biochemistry at Boston University and wrote many nonfiction-related science books. I had the opportunity to read some of his science books but when it came to fiction well I kept to his science fiction repertoire, I know most of his sci-fi novels by memory, but not all sci-fi short stories. They are many. Since I am housebound I took an interest in reading his mysteries.

I started reading "The Return of the Black Widowers". Apparently, there were more "Black Widowers" short stories that I wasn't aware of. I will try to fetch them. Come to think of it, Maybe in the future, I will try to read all of Asimov's books. After a bit of research it seems, Asimov was a member himself of NYC "Trap doors Spiders" which was a debaters club and dinner male-only dinners club. The group was fictionalized in the 1960's "The Strangers of Rhodes"

If you do get to read The "Return of the Black Widowers" or any other Black Widowers series let me know which one was your favorite.

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