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Early Sunday Morning

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Early Sunday Morning	label	Early Sunday Morning
Early Sunday Morning	page	EarlySundayMorning
Early Sunday Morning	comment	The 5th story in the Black Widowers case files, Isaac Asimov wrote it for Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine (March 1973 issue), under the title of "The Biological Clock".Halsted is host tonight, and he didn't bring a guest for the grilling! He waits for the normal grilling time and puts the entire group to the question, "Who here knows of a murder?" Because the previous crimes were minor inconveniences, not big crimes, Halsted wants to solve the biggest mystery, a murder. One by one, the members admit they don't know of any murder mysteries to appease him. Then Gonzalo mentions his sister's death, an unsolved murder because some drug addict must've come in and tried to rob her. The members try to help him, but the police have already been quite thorough. Even Henry claims to be stumped.This story has been reprinted twice; Tales of the Black Widowers (1974) and The Return of the Black Widowers (2003).
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Early Sunday Morning / int_1561fbc4	type	Mystery Magnet
Early Sunday Morning / int_1561fbc4	comment	Mystery Magnet: Now that the club has been firmly established as a place that solves mysteries, Halsted wants to solve the ultimate crime: a murder mystery.
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Early Sunday Morning / int_1777688d	type	Genre Savvy
Early Sunday Morning / int_1777688d	comment	Genre Savvy: Halsted's claim that between the seven members, one of them must know of a murder, is rebuked by Rubin, who insists that he's been reading too many mystery stories. Subverted Trope, as Rubin is quite surprised to learn it's a common plot, since he doesnâ€™t read mystery stories.
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Early Sunday Morning / int_18d15922	type	Title Drop
Early Sunday Morning / int_18d15922	comment	Title Drop: The original title, "The Biological Clock", appears when Drake grouses about how he isn't an early riser like Gonzalo. The new title, "Early Sunday Morning", appears when Gonzalo is grousing about being an early riser, even on Sundays.
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Early Sunday Morning / int_1b4ea159	type	The Alibi
Early Sunday Morning / int_1b4ea159	comment	The Alibi: Gonzalo claims that Alex could not have been home during Marge's murder because they were together at nine, when the witnesses say the murder took place.
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Early Sunday Morning / int_1e1afc1b	type	Framing Device
Early Sunday Morning / int_1e1afc1b	comment	Framing Device: The Fancy Dinner and grilling provide a location and characters to hear about the murder of Gonzalo's sister.
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Early Sunday Morning / int_2b1d7c0a	type	The Drifter
Early Sunday Morning / int_2b1d7c0a	comment	The Drifter: Accourding to Gonzalo, Alex isn't very motivated and just goes from small jobs to small jobs, earning and borrowing for day-to-day life.
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Early Sunday Morning / int_313d7228	type	Previously onâ€¦
Early Sunday Morning / int_313d7228	comment	Previously onâ€¦: Halsted recaps the previous four mysteries, dismissing them as uninteresting compared to Murder.
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Early Sunday Morning / int_5a40d6a	type	Adaptation Distillation
Early Sunday Morning / int_5a40d6a	comment	Adaptation Distillation: In-Universe, Halsted is adapting The Iliad into limericks, one book at a time. The third book goes as follows:
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Early Sunday Morning / int_5c059fbd	type	Twin Telepathy
Early Sunday Morning / int_5c059fbd	comment	Twin Telepathy: Gonzalo lays some claim to telepathy and precognition, but isn't willing to defend it against the skeptical club members.
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Early Sunday Morning / int_640a7996	type	Fancy Dinner
Early Sunday Morning / int_640a7996	comment	Fancy Dinner: The Black Widowers meet every month at the Milano, a fancy restaurant in New York City, tonight's dinner is manicotti and trout.
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Early Sunday Morning / int_8151ec48	type	Driving Question
Early Sunday Morning / int_8151ec48	comment	Driving Question: Can the club solve a murder mystery?
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Early Sunday Morning / int_86d4f985	type	Doing In the Wizard
Early Sunday Morning / int_86d4f985	comment	Doing In the Wizard: The club members aren't willing to let Gonzalo describe any sort of psychic abilities without challenge, and he isn't interested in defending his view.
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Early Sunday Morning / int_959a9947	type	Phone-In Detective
Early Sunday Morning / int_959a9947	comment	Phone-In Detective: Henry is able to deduce the mystery of Marge's murder merely from having the timing described.
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Early Sunday Morning / int_9830549e	type	He-Man Woman Hater
Early Sunday Morning / int_9830549e	comment	He-Man Woman Hater: In this story, it's revealed that members (including guests) cannot be women. It's the only actual rule, the rest being guidelines or traditions.
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Early Sunday Morning / int_9fda81a7	type	The Summation
Early Sunday Morning / int_9fda81a7	comment	The Summation: Henry, at first, admits he cannot solve the mystery. Later, he takes Gonzalo into a different room to reveal how he had been tricked into giving a false alibi.
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Early Sunday Morning / int_a056fdb	type	Puzzle Thriller
Early Sunday Morning / int_a056fdb	comment	Puzzle Thriller: Discussed Trope, Halsted wants to solve a murder since there's always a mystery at the meetings now. Rubin, the resident author, explains why mysteries are a type of logic puzzle. (Note that the character describes a Fairplay Whodunnit, which was Dr Asimov's preferred story.)
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Early Sunday Morning / int_a164f37d	type	Fair-Play Whodunnit
Early Sunday Morning / int_a164f37d	comment	Fairplay Whodunnit: The clues are all presented during the grilling, and the audience can deduce how the murderer has escaped detection after Henry has admitted failure.
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Early Sunday Morning / int_a1d753b6	type	Featureless Plane of Disembodied Dialogue
Early Sunday Morning / int_a1d753b6	comment	Featureless Plane of Disembodied Dialogue: Very little of the characters are described, and the room itself has more detail than usual simply to establish that Henry and Gonzalo are not in the room where they have to keep the conversation a secret.
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Early Sunday Morning / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Early Sunday Morning / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: Rubin complains that Halsted has been reading too much Agatha Christie, and mentions Miss Marple. Avalon quotes from The RubÃ¡iyÃ¡t of Omar Khayyam, "The moving finger writes".
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Early Sunday Morning / int_c8f21342	type	Clock Discrepancy
Early Sunday Morning / int_c8f21342	comment	Clock Discrepancy: Gonzalo is already awake when a phone call comes at a time that is actually an hour later than he thinks it is (because he hasn't yet set his clock forward for Daylight Savings Time) and thus unwittingly provides a false alibi.
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Early Sunday Morning / int_cf57aca1	type	Orwellian Retcon
Early Sunday Morning / int_cf57aca1	comment	Orwellian Retcon: Dr Asimov didn't like the title that the magazine gave this story ("The Biological Clock") because he felt it gave too much away. So he changed it back when editing Tales of the Black Widowers.
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Early Sunday Morning / int_deecc9eb	type	Awful Wedded Life
Early Sunday Morning / int_deecc9eb	comment	Awful Wedded Life: Gonzalo reports that Alex and Marge fought often, and it was after one of those fights that Alex asked if he could visit Gonzalo for awhile.
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Early Sunday Morning / int_e9e35e8f	type	Exact Words
Early Sunday Morning / int_e9e35e8f	comment	Exact Words: Henry would never break the rules of confidentiality the meeting uses, which is "[a]nything said in that room can't be repeated outside", so before giving The Summation, he and Gonzalo find an unused corner outside of the room.
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Early Sunday Morning / int_ed371675	type	Til Murder Do Us Part
Early Sunday Morning / int_ed371675	comment	Til Murder Do Us Part: Alex kills Marge in a fit of anger, because he doesn't like the person she's trying to turn him into. Panicking, he calls up his brother-in-law to get an alibi for when she died.
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Early Sunday Morning / int_fd497706	type	Accidental Murder
Early Sunday Morning / int_fd497706	comment	Accidental Murder: Gonzalo asks Henry why Alex may have killed his wife (Gonzalo's sister), and Henry responds that it was probably an accident; an argument that just went a little too far. When it was over, Alex panicked and called Gonzalo to create an alibi for when the neighbors would've heard the murder.
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Early Sunday Morning	hasFeature	American Literature (# to D) / int_ac5751fe
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