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"The Final Problem" is a short story by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle featuring his detective character Sherlock Holmes. It was first published in The Strand Magazine in the United Kingdom, and McClure's in the United States, under the title "The Adventure of the Final Problem" in December 1893.
"Solution Unsatisfactory" is a 1941 science fiction alternate history short story by American writer Robert A. Heinlein. It describes the US effort to build a nuclear weapon in order to end the ongoing World War II , and its dystopian consequences to the nation and the world.
The problem became notorious when American novelist and short story writer Ben Ames Williams modified an older problem and included it in a story, "Coconuts", in the October 9, 1926, issue of the Saturday Evening Post. [2] Here is how the problem was stated by Williams [3] (condensed and paraphrased): Five men and a monkey were shipwrecked on ...
“Problems” is a slight, witty piece presenting the divorced or separated protagonist’s woes with his (ex-)spouse, family, mistress/new wife, and guilt as six mathematical puzzles to be solved. It is a negligible tale that would not, one suspects, have found a publisher…without Updike’s reputation to lend it weight.
The story was published with seven illustrations by A. Gilbert in the Strand, [7] and with six illustrations by G. Patrick Nelson in Hearst's International. [8] It was included in the short story collection The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes, [7] which was published in the UK and the US in June 1927. [9]
As a collection, Problems and Other Stories is marked by the author’s growth as a writer, but the best stories in the book are best because they are about the subject which is most crucial to Updike. In those, form and feeling are one; the problem raised and the problem solved matter because the human heart is at stake; the drama is literally ...
The Thirteen Problems is a short story collection by British writer Agatha Christie, first published in the UK by Collins Crime Club in June 1932 [1] and in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company in 1933 under the title The Tuesday Club Murders.
The most prolific creator of impossible crimes is Edward D. Hoch, whose short stories feature a detective, Dr. Sam Hawthorne, whose main role is as a country physician. The majority of Hoch stories feature impossible crimes; one appeared in EQMM every month from May 1973 through January 2008. Hoch's protagonist is a gifted amateur detective who ...