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The Men Who Explained Miracles
First UK edition
AuthorJohn Dickson Carr
Cover artistB. S. Biro
LanguageEnglish
SeriesHenry Merrivale, Gideon Fell, Colonel March
GenreMystery, Detective novel, Short story
PublisherHamish Hamilton (UK) & Harper (US, 1964)
Publication date1963
Publication placeUnited Kingdom
Media typePrint (hardback & paperback)
Pages192 pp (1st UK)

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". This volume of short stories is of the mystery genre, most of the type known as a whodunnit.

Stories

  • Colonel March, of the Department of Queer Complaints:
    • "William Wilson's Racket"
    • "The Empty Flat"
  • Dr. Gideon Fell:
  • 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"
Works by John Dickson Carr
Sir Henry Merrivale series
Novels
Short stories
Gideon Fell series
Novels
Short story
collections
Henri Bencolin series
Novels
Short stories
Other novels
As John Dickson Carr
As Carter Dickson
Other works


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