The Men Who Explain Miracles – The Invisible Event: Recent Episodes
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When is a podcast with a focus on impossible crimes not a podcast with a focus on impossible crimes? Well, frankly, today. With Brad and I having looked at Agatha Christie’s impossible crime novels last week, this week Dan joins the fray and we have a bit of a general discuss about Christie and her … Continue reading #567: The Men Who Explain Miracles – Episode 10.2: Partners in Crime, or: Some Personal Reflections on the Work of Agatha Christie
With the self-imposed “every two months” deadline for episodes being a little difficult to maintain, it nevertheless gives me great pleasure to present to you today a new episode of our increasingly-occasional podcast The Men Who Explain Miracles. Recorded in the wake of the 2019 Bodies from the Library conference when Mr. Bradley Friedman was … Continue reading #564: The Men Who Explain Miracles – Episode 10.1: The Impossible Crime Novels of Agatha Christie
After being on something of an enforced hiatus for a little while, The Men Who Explain Miracles, the occasional podcast run by Dan from The Reader is Warned and myself, returned yesterday for a live show at the Bodies from the Library Conference 2019 at the British Library. In an action-packed 29 minutes we went … Continue reading #546: The 10 Types of Impossible Crime – Categories and Titles from Our Talk at Bodies from the Library 2019
Last week we looked at S.S. van Dine’s take on what a detective novel should be, this week Ronald Knox has his say. The Knox Decalogue is possibly more famous than Van Dine’s Twenty Rules — I imagine largely on account of The Disavowed Controversial One, and yes, we address that — and as it’s … Continue reading #506: The Men Who Explain Miracles – Episode 9.2: Laying Down the Laws – The Knox Decalogue & Detection Club Oath
There’s joy in your heart, a spring in your step, a tune in your soul — could it be that The Men Who Explain Miracles are here with another episode of their universally listened-to-by-some-people podcast? Indeed, it is! Dan from The Reader is Warned and I are back back back, and with Spring around the … Continue reading #503: The Men Who Explain Miracles – Episode 9.1: Laying Down the Laws – The Van Dine Twenty
Last week we gave you an overview of the (translated) works of Paul Halter, this week I’ll be talking you through five novels you could pick up if you’re still not sure where to start. There’s something on this list to outrage everyone, I’m sure — just be thankful we edited out all the trifle … Continue reading #479: The Men Who Explain Miracles – Episode 8.2: The Impossible Crimes of Paul Halter
After a four month hiatus rather than the usual (and intended) two, Dan of The Reader is Warned and I are back with some impossible crime podcasting…and to my utter delight it’s the turn of M. Paul Halter to find himself in the spotlight. This week and next we shall be discussing the work — … Continue reading #476: The Men Who Explain Miracles – Episode 8.1: The Impossible Crimes of Paul Halter
Greetings, and welcome back to episode 7 of our every-two-monthly (is there a word for that?) podcast The Men Who Explain Miracles, which this month we’re using to look at the career of John Dickson Carr. We’re back in the British Library — well, okay, we’re not back, since we didn’t leave between episodes — … Continue reading #429: The Men Who Explain Miracles – Episode 7.2: The Ages of John Dickson Carr
Well, hello there. Can you believe it’s been two months since Dan and I interviewed Martin Edwards, and so is time for another episode of our podcast? I certainly can’t. And, this time around, we have a surprise for you… The surprise is not that we’re discussing here the many different eras of the career … Continue reading #427: The Men Who Explain Miracles – Episode 7.1: The Ages of John Dickson Carr
Last Saturday was — as Kate, Puzzle Doctor, Moira, and Martin Edwards have already reported — the Bodies from the Library Conference 2018 at the British Library, and a superb day it was indeed. I only got to speak to about six people, partly because I am very poor at socialising, and partly because, in … Continue reading #403: The Men Who Explain Miracles – Episode 6: An Interview with Martin Edwards
Last week you had the opportunity to pick through my choices for the 15 best impossible crime novels of all time; this week, in the second and final part of our episode on this theme, it’s Dan’s turn. The key difference this week is that Dan has actually given his books an order (my “pull … Continue reading #380: The Men Who Explain Miracles – Episode 5.2: Dan’s 15 Favourite Impossible Crime Novels + Bonus Material!
It’s that time again: Dan who blogs at The Reader is Warned and I are here once more with another episode of our podcast The Men Who Explain Miracles, and things are about to get personal… Our previous episode in February was a three-part look at the list of the top 15 impossible crime novels … Continue reading #377: The Men Who Explain Miracles – Episode 5.1: My 15 Favourite Impossible Crime Novels
Here we are, the third and final week of Dan and I using our podcast The Men Who Explain Miracles to look at the list of the 15 best impossible crime novels as curated by Ed Hoch in 1981. The novels discussed this week are the big-hitters, the top 5, those titles that should potentially … Continue reading #353: The Men Who Explain Miracles – Episode 4.3: The Edward D. Hoch ‘Best Impossible Crime Novels’ List of 1981 (Books 5 to 1)
Continuing our examination of the 15 best impossible crime novels of all time as compèred by Edward D. Hoch in 1981, here is the second of three episodes looking at the titles in question from Dan and myself in our occasional podcast The Men Who Explain Miracles. In addition to discussing books 6 through 10 … Continue reading #350: The Men Who Explain Miracles – Episode 4.2: The Edward D. Hoch ‘Best Impossible Crime Novels’ List of 1981 (Books 10 to 6)
Let the tucket sound! Dan and I are back with our occasional podcast The Men Who Explain Miracles, and we’re taking on something rather special this month. We’ve turned our attention to the list of the 15 best impossible crime novels of all time compèred by Edward D. Hoch for the introduction to his 1981 … Continue reading #347: The Men Who Explain Miracles – Episode 4.1: The Edward D. Hoch ‘Best Impossible Crime Novels’ List of 1981 (Books 15 to 11)
Apologies, I’m a bit late in bringing to your attention — term only finished yesterday, and I’m still in shock — that the third episode of the occasional podcast Dan of The Reader is Warned and I record is now up and ready to fly straight to your ears at the click of a mouse. … Continue reading #327: The Men Who Explain Miracles Have Returned, with Murder on the Way! (1935) by Theodore Roscoe
Okay, here we go: Spoiler Warning Number 3 in which Dan from The Reader is Warned and I discuss Hake Talbot’s cavalcade of impossibilities, voted the second best impossible crime novel of all time back in 1981. Except, well, this time we’ve done things a little differently… See, Dan and I live about 40 minutes … Continue reading #268: Spoiler Warning 3 – Rim of the Pit (1944) by Hake Talbot