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Title: The Case of the Defective Doyles

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Title: The Case of the Defective Doyles Title Record # 133502
Author: Martin Gardner
Date: 1978-01-00
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: short story
Series: SF Puzzles
Language: English
Synopsis: A logic puzzle posed as a short story.
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Other Titles

Variant Titles Translations
Year Title
1978 The Defective Doyles
Year Language Title
1981Translated by 深町眞理子(Fukamachi Mariko)
Japanese
欠陥ドイル事件?Kekkan Doiru jiken
[as by
マーチン・ガードナー?Māchin Gādonā
Machin Gadona
]
1982 German Die kaputten Holme

Publications

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Title Date Author/Editor Publisher/Pub. Series ISBN/Catalog ID Price Pages Format Type Cover Artist Verif
Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Anthology, Volume 1 1978-00-00 ed. uncredited Davis Publications  
$1.95?$: US dollar
288
digest?Digest-size magazine, including both standard digest size, at about 7" by 4.5", and also large digest, such as recent issues of Asimov's, which are about 8.25" by 5.125".
anth Checkmark
Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, January-February 1978 1978-01-00 ed. George H. Scithers Davis Publications  
$1.25?$: US dollar
196
digest?Digest-size magazine, including both standard digest size, at about 7" by 4.5", and also large digest, such as recent issues of Asimov's, which are about 8.25" by 5.125".
mag Paul Alexander Checkmark
Isaac Asimov's Masters of Science Fiction 1978-12-00 ed. George Scithers Davis Publications 0-8037-3697-5
$8.95?$: US dollar
288
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
anth Paul Alexander Checkmark
Science Fiction Puzzle Tales 1981-06-00 Martin Gardner Clarkson N. Potter 0-517-54381-8
$4.95?$: US dollar
xii+
148
tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.
coll Jan Sawka Checkmark
Science Fiction Puzzle Tales 1981-06-00 Martin Gardner Clarkson N. Potter 0-517-54380-X
$10.95?$: US dollar
xii+
148
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
coll Jan Sawka Checkmark
SF宝石 1981/6 No.12?SF Hoseki 1981/6 No.12
1981-06-00 ed.
Editors of SF宝石?Editors of SF hōseki
光文社?Kōbunsha
Kobunsha
     
unknown?The publication record was created from a secondary source and the publication format is unknown.
mag  
Denkspiele aus der Zukunft 1984-00-00 Martin Gardner Bertelsmann / Book Sales Clubs 084384   xiv+
144
tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.
coll Checkmark
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