【渣翻】《黑鳏夫俱乐部故事集》 导言 (阿西莫夫推理系列作品)(8)
I laughed and all the wheels in my head, heaving a collective sigh of relief, stopped turning. I had my twist.
I then needed a background against which to display the twist and here we have something else.
Back in the early 1940's, legend has it, someone got married to a lady who found her husband's friends unacceptable, and vice versa. In order to avoid breaking off a valued relationship, those friends organized a club without officers or bylaws for the sole purpose of having a dinner once a month. It would be a stag organization so that the husband in question could be invited to join and his wife legitimately requested not to attend. (Nowadays, with Women's Lib so powerful, this might not have worked.)