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“The Redhead”
 
1984
Black Widower Mystery
3
 

John Anderssen has a readheaded wife who claims to a witch and proves it to him one night by disappearing most effectively.

The gimmick for this one came to Asimov in a dream, and in the afterword he wishes aloud that his dreams helped him a bit more along those lines by coming up with the puzzles for him to put in his stories for him. This reader wishes the same; the story here is far, far better and more effective than the average Black Widower story with a believable and interesting resolution.

Contents
21
Banquets of the Black Widowers
33
The Best Mysteries of Isaac Asimov
33
The Return of the Black Widowers
 
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