I found Asimov's Mysteries in a used-book stall, and of course I had to get it.  A mashup of retro mystery and scifi, my other favorite genre?  Perfect!  The book appears to be out of print, with secondhand copies floating around.

I'm so glad I found and read these, but I wish I had read them separately, in different magazines, as they were originally published. Reading them all together highlighted the similarities, and I felt like I was reading the same story, over and over. Basically, there's a murder, and then there are a couple of possible suspects, one of who has recently returned from a planet where the gravity/light/atmosphere is different from Earth's, and he makes a crucial mistake because he forgot about Earth's conditions.

It was great the first ti...

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