Series
Black Widowers
Isaac Asimov, Charles Ardai & Edward D. Hoch · 70 short stories · 7 collections · 1972–2003
The Black Widowers is a fictional men-only dining club created by Isaac Asimov for a series of sixty-six mystery stories that he started writing in 1971. Most of the stories were first published in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, though a few first appeared in Fantasy & Science Fiction, Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, and the various book collections into which the stories were eventually gathered.
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Stats
By decade
- 1970s35
- 1980s30
- 1990s9
- 2000s2
Shape
70 short stories · 7 collections
3 authors
reads like:mystery & detectivemurder investigationour worldcontemporarymysteriousadult
Mood
Grim and intense: 69% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 46%.
this series · the catalog · one dot = one book55 of 77 works carry a tone
Edges of the map
- Banquets of the Black Widowersdarkest
- Tales of the Black Widowersbrightest · most intense
- Second Bestcalmest