# Laugh Clone, Laugh

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/laugh-clone-laugh/614055>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [February 26, 2012, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/laugh-clone-laugh/614055 "2012-02-26T15:03:06Z")\
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**Author:** ![Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ccd318/32.png) [@Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paul_in_Qatar)\
**Post date:** [February 26, 2012, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/laugh-clone-laugh/614055/1 "2012-02-26T15:03:06Z")

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I remember a couple of short stories published in _Playboy_ when I was a kid. They featured a film noire sort of private eye who was a five-way clone. He (they) ran the Five Aces Detective Agency.

In the text, the various clones had superscripts. I(1) questioned the witness while I(2,4) was looking for prints, in a few minutes, I(3) found the gun, I(5) ran over from the bathroom.

Any idea who wrote it and if such stories are available?

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**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\
**Post date:** [February 26, 2012, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/laugh-clone-laugh/614055/2 "2012-02-26T15:43:50Z")

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Gotta run out the door, but check [this list.](http://zzmaster.best.vwh.net/MYST/playboy_index.html)

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**Author:** ![Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ccd318/32.png) [@Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paul_in_Qatar)\
**Post date:** [February 27, 2012, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/laugh-clone-laugh/614055/3 "2012-02-27T13:55:27Z")

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Thank you

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**Author:** ![Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ccd318/32.png) [@Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paul_in_Qatar)\
**Post date:** [February 27, 2012, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/laugh-clone-laugh/614055/4 "2012-02-27T14:00:56Z")

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- Laugh, Clone, Laugh (with A. E. van Vogt), (ss) Science Fiction Worlds of Forrest J Ackerman & Friends, Powell 1969  
More Than Superhuman, Dell 1971