Asimov's Mysteries

• "The Singing Bell" (1955), a Wendell Urth story • "The Talking Stone" (1955), a Wendell Urth story • "What's in a Name?" (1956) • "The Dying Night" (1956), novelette, a Wendell Urth story • "Pâté de Foie Gras" (1956) • "The Dust of Death" (1957) • "A Loint of Paw" (1957) • "I'm in Marsport Without Hilda" (1957), a bowdlerized version of this story appeared in the collection Nine Tomorrows • "Marooned off Vesta" (1939) • "Anniversary" (1959), a Multivac story and a sequel to "Marooned off Vesta" • "Obituary" (1959) • "Star Light" (1962) • "The Key" (1966), novelette, a Wendell Urth story • "The Billiard Ball" (1967), novelette ==Reception==

Criticizing the Urth stories as "rather contrived and not particularly entertaining", Algis Budrys said that the collection was "a poor book because it is a book about clevernesses, and clevernesses are not Isaac's long suit". Edward Wellen wrote a pastiche story featuring Urth, "Murder in the Urth Degree," that was included in the 1989 volume ''Foundation's Friends''. ==References==