The Phoenician bauble in question is an artifact earnestly coveted by a museum, but their contact, who had managed to acquire it and stash it somewhere safe, dies of natural casues before he can reveal its location.

A slight and weak story, it isn’t helped by the fact that it starts out with the Black Widowers discussing a science fiction story called “Lest We Remember” by one Isaac Asimov—another of the Good Doctor’s really subpar bits of fiction.

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	Banquets of the Black Widowers