Twelve cunningly fashioned detective stories

Once a month the Black Widowers club meet to enjoy good food, fine wine, convivial company - and to entertain a guest.

Each month the guest provides them with a conundrum - a mystery which has so far proved completely baffling.

And so the Black Widowers set to work on the problem - aided and abetted by Henry, their perspicacious waiter, whose remarkable powers of deduction never fails to astonish...

Contains:

• Introduction
• The Cross of Lorraine
• The Family Man
• The Sports Page
• Second Best
• The Missing Item
• The Next Day
• Irrelevance!
• None so Blind
• The Backward Look
• What Time Is It?
• Middle Name
• To the Barest