Banquets of the Black Widowers

A collection of mystery stories.

Six distinguished gentleman (Ph.D.'s all) and one invited guest dine monthly at New York's elegant Milano restaurant. the Black Widowers, whose number includes the peerless waiter, Henry have an uncanny ability to elicit from each guest a story that is somehow problematic, unsolved, a mystery — even if the guest is unaware of the problem.

But the Black Widowers, equipped with plenty of erudition and intuition, eagerly tackle the puzzle — until Henry, quietly amassing the facts, delight them all with the answer.

Contents:

• Introduction
• Sixty Million Trillion Combinations
• The Woman in the Bar
• The Driver
• The Good Samaritan
• The Year of the Action
• Can You Prove It?
• The Phoenician Bauble
• A Monday in April
• Neither Brute Nor Human
• The Redhead
• The Wrong House
• The Intrusion