What's in a Name?

What's in a Name?
"What's in a Name?"
Author Isaac Asimov
Original title "Death of a Honey-Blonde"
Country United States
Language English
Genre(s) mystery short story
Published in The Saint Detective Magazine
Publication type Periodical
Publisher Fiction Publishing
Media type Print (Magazine)
Publication date June 1956

"What's in a Name?"' is a mystery short story by Isaac Asimov. It first appeared in the June 1956 issue of The Saint Detective Magazine under the title Death of a Honey-Blonde and was reprinted in the 1968 collection Asimov's Mysteries under its original title.

Plot summary

An unnamed detective arrives to investigate a mysterious death at Carmody University. Louella-Marie Busch and Susan Morey were known as the "library twins" due to their similar appearance and work at the science reference library. Busch is dead after drinking tea laced with potassium cyanide. The detective proves that it was the survivor, Morey, who prepared the tea by showing that she did not know the name of the one person who inquired at the reference desk while the tea was being prepared, a furrier named Ernest Beilstein. The detective alleges that Morey could not possibly have forgotten this due to the coincidence of his sharing a name with Beilstein's Handbook of Organic Chemistry, a sixty volume encyclopedia of chemical compounds and reactions.



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