The Disappearing Man and Other Mysteries

Cover of first edition, 1985
Author	Isaac Asimov
Cover artist	Yoshi Miyake
Country	United States
Language	English
Genre	Mystery
Publisher	Walker & Company
Publication date	1985
Media type	Print (hardcover)
Pages	50 p.
ISBN	0-8027-6578-5
Preceded by	The Key Word and Other Mysteries

The Disappearing Man and Other Mysteries is a collection of mystery short stories by American author Isaac Asimov, featuring his boy detective Larry. The book was illustrated by Yoshi Miyake and was first published in hardcover by Walker & Company in 1985.

The book contains five stories. Three were reprinted from Boys' Life and the other two were new stories written for the book.

Larry appeared in seven other stories, five of which appear in The Key Word and Other Mysteries. (The eleventh Larry story, "Zip Code," from Boys' Life September 1986, does not appear in any book, and the twelfth and final story, "A Friend Calls," was never published.)^[1]

Contents

• "The Disappearing Man" (Boys' Life, June 1978)^[2]
• "Lucky Seven" (Boys' Life, September 1982)^[3]
• "The Christmas Solution" (Boys' Life, December 1983)^[4]
• "The Twins" (first appeared in this book)
• "The Man in the Park" (first appeared in this book)