The Men Who Explained Miracles

{{Short description|1963 short story collection by John Dickson Carr}}

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| name = The Men Who Explained Miracles

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| image = TheMenWhoExplainedMiracles.jpg

| caption = First UK edition

| author = John Dickson Carr

| cover_artist = B. S. Biro

| country = United Kingdom

| language = English

| series = Henry Merrivale, Gideon Fell, Colonel March

| genre = Mystery, Detective novel, Short story

| publisher = Hamish Hamilton (UK) & Harper (US, 1964)

| release_date = 1963

| media_type = Print (hardback & paperback)

| pages = 192 pp (1st UK)

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The Men Who Explained Miracles, first published in 1963, is a volume of short stories written by John Dickson Carr; the stories feature his series detectives Gideon Fell, Henry Merrivale and Colonel March, of the "Department of Queer Complaints".{{cite news |last1=Evans |first1=Verda |title=The Mystery Shelf |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-plain-dealer-the-mystery-shelf/171675478/ |access-date=4 May 2025 |work=The Plain Dealer |date=5 January 1964 |location=Cleveland, Ohio |page={{nobr|12—F}} |via=Newspapers.com}}{{cite news |last1=Simpson |first1=Seth |title=Miracle Men |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/oakland-tribune-miracle-men/171675608/ |access-date=4 May 2025 |work=Oakland Tribune |date=5 January 1964 |location=Oakland, California |page={{nobr|3—EL}} |via=Newspapers.com}} The stories are mostly reprints of stories previously published in magazines.{{cite news |last1=Jones |first1=Athelney |title=Baker Street Regulars |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-pittsburgh-press-baker-street-regula/171675890/ |access-date=4 May 2025 |work=The Pittsburgh Press |date=15 December 1963 |location=Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania |page=8 |department=Sec. 5 |via=Newspapers.com}}

Stories

  • Colonel March, of the Department of Queer Complaints:
  • "William Wilson's Racket"
  • "The Empty Flat"
  • Dr. Gideon Fell:
  • "The Incautious Burglar" (a shortened and altered version of Death and the Gilded Man)
  • "Invisible Hands"
  • Two non-series "Secret Service" stories
  • "Strictly Diplomatic"
  • "The Black Cabinet"; this is a story in which an attempt to assassinate Napoleon III is foiled by a contemporaneous historical figure from another context.
  • Sir Henry Merrivale:
  • "All in a Maze"

References