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#380: The Men Who Explain Miracles – Episode 5.2: Dan’s 15 Favourite Impossible Crime Novels + Bonus Material!

April 28, 2018December 31, 2025 / JJ / 100 Comments

TMWEM Top 15

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.

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#377: The Men Who Explain Miracles – Episode 5.1: My 15 Favourite Impossible Crime Novels

April 21, 2018September 27, 2025 / JJ / 94 Comments

TMWEM Top 15

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…

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#353: The Men Who Explain Miracles – Episode 4.3: The Edward D. Hoch ‘Best Impossible Crime Novels’ List of 1981 (Books 5 to 1)

February 24, 2018February 23, 2018 / JJ / 92 Comments

TMWEM Hoch List

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.

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#350: The Men Who Explain Miracles – Episode 4.2: The Edward D. Hoch ‘Best Impossible Crime Novels’ List of 1981 (Books 10 to 6)

February 17, 2018February 16, 2018 / JJ / 34 Comments

TMWEM Hoch List

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.

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#347: The Men Who Explain Miracles – Episode 4.1: The Edward D. Hoch ‘Best Impossible Crime Novels’ List of 1981 (Books 15 to 11)

February 10, 2018April 19, 2018 / JJ / 46 Comments

TMWEM Hoch List

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.

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#327: The Men Who Explain Miracles Have Returned, with Murder on the Way! (1935) by Theodore Roscoe

December 21, 2017December 21, 2017 / JJ / 2 Comments

MWEMMotW

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.

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#268: Spoiler Warning 3 – Rim of the Pit (1944) by Hake Talbot

July 29, 2017March 21, 2020 / JJ / 36 Comments

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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…

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