The Disappearing Man and Other Mysteries

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The Disappearing Man and Other Mysteries
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Cover of first edition, 1985
Author Isaac Asimov
Cover artist Yoshi Miyake
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Genre Mystery
Publisher Walker & Company
Publication date
1985
Media typePrint (hardcover)
Pages50 p.
ISBN 0-8027-6578-5
Preceded by The Key Word and Other Mysteries  

The Disappearing Man and Other Mysteries is a collection of mystery short stories by American author Isaac Asimov, featuring his boy detective Larry. The book was illustrated by Yoshi Miyake and was first published in hardcover by Walker & Company in 1985.

Contents

The book contains five stories. Three were reprinted from Boys' Life and the other two were new stories written for the book.

Larry appeared in seven other stories, five of which appear in The Key Word and Other Mysteries . (The eleventh Larry story, "Zip Code," from Boys' Life September 1986, does not appear in any book, and the twelfth and final story, "A Friend Calls," was never published.) [1]

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References

  1. Cooper, Steven. "An Annotated Asimov Bibliography" . Retrieved October 3, 2023.
  2. Asimov, Isaac (June 1978). "The Disappearing Man". Boys' Life: 30.
  3. Asimov, Isaac (September 1982). "The Lucky Seven". Boys' Life: 36.
  4. Asimov, Isaac (December 1983). "The Christmas Solution". Boys' Life: 36.