Title: The Facts in the Case of the Departure of Miss Finch

Title: The Facts in the Case of the Departure of Miss Finch Title Record # 834836
Author: Neil Gaiman
Date: 1998-00-00
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: short story
Language: English

Note: First published in Frank Frazetta Fantasy Illustrated #3 1998. Also appeared as stand-alone graphic novel from Dark Horse Books (ISBN 978-1-59307-667-2) This story's appearance on SPEAKING IN TONGUES is called, on the insert, The Facts in the Case of the DISAPPEARANCE of Miss Finch, but on the list of recordings and everywhere else, it is entitled correctly.

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Translations

Year	Title
2008	The Facts in the Case of the Departure of Miss Finch [as by Neil Gaiman and Todd Klein]

Year	Language	Title
2002^ⓘTranslated by Denis Labbé	French	Les faits concernant le départ de Miss Finch
2007^ⓘTranslated by Emmy van Beest and Josephine Ruitenberg	Dutch	De Feiten Inzake de Verdwijning van Juffrouw Finch
2010	Portuguese	Os fatos no caso da partida da senhorita Finch
2010^ⓘTranslated by Hannes Riffel and/or Sara Riffel (the credit for the collection states both of them, but the individual items may have been translated by only one of them)	German	Die wahren Umstände im Fall des Verschwindens von Miss Finch

Publications

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Title	Date	Author/Editor	Publisher/Pub. Series	ISBN/Catalog ID	Price	Pages	Format	Type	Cover Artist
Tales of the Unanticipated #20	1999-08-00	ed. Eric M. Heideman	Minnesota Science Fiction Society	0-9760146-1-0	$6.00^?$: US dollar	104	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	anth	Dave Roszelle
Smoke and Mirrors: Short Fictions and Illusions	1999-12-00	Neil Gaiman	Headline Feature	0-7472-7418-5	£9.99^?£: UK pound	374	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	coll	J. K. Potter
Speaking in Tongues	2004-00-00	Neil Gaiman	DreamHaven Books	1-892058-08-1	$15.95^?$: US dollar		audio CD^?Compact disc with standard audio tracks	coll	Michael Zulli
Smoke and Mirrors: Short Fictions and Illusions	2005-00-00	Neil Gaiman	Headline Review	0-7553-2283-5	£7.99^?£: UK pound	384	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	coll
Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders	2006-10-00	Neil Gaiman	William Morrow / HarperCollins / SFBC	1221406	$13.49^?$: US dollar	xxxi+ 360	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	coll	Richard L. Aquan , Henry Gray , Floyd Dean , Lindamarie Ambrose , Paul Ambrose , Jan Cobb
Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders	2006-10-00	Neil Gaiman	William Morrow / HarperCollins	0-06-051522-8	$26.95^?$: US dollar	xxxi+ 360	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	coll	Richard L. Aquan , Henry Gray , Floyd Dean , Lindamarie Ambrose , Paul Ambrose , Jan Cobb
Fragile Things	2006-10-26	Neil Gaiman	HarperAudio	978-0-06-122995-4	$27.93^?$: US dollar		digital audio download^?Digital recording in any format that is downloaded directly from the Internet. This category includes podcasts.	coll	Richard L. Aquan , Henry Gray , Floyd Dean , Lindamarie Ambrose , Paul Ambrose , Jan Cobb
Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders	2007-10-00	Neil Gaiman	Harper Perennial	978-0-06-125202-0	$14.95^?$: US dollar	xxxiii+ 360+ 16	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	coll
Fragile Things	2009-10-13	Neil Gaiman	William Morrow / HarperCollins	978-0-06-180416-8	$7.99^?$: US dollar		ebook^?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.	coll
Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders	2010-02-01	Neil Gaiman	Harper	978-0-06-051523-2	$7.99^?$: US dollar	400	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	coll
Fragile Things	2010-09-30	Neil Gaiman	Headline Review	978-0-7553-7994-1	£4.99^?£: UK pound		ebook^?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.	coll	gray318
Fragile Things	2018-05-22	Neil Gaiman	William Morrow / HarperCollins	978-0-06-180416-8	$7.99^?$: US dollar		ebook^?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.	coll
Fragile Things	2018-05-22	Neil Gaiman	William Morrow / HarperCollins	978-0-06-269954-1	$16.99^?$: US dollar	xxxiii+ 355	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	coll
The Neil Gaiman Reader: Selected Fiction	2020-10-20	Neil Gaiman	HarperCollins B and Blackstone Publishing	978-0-06-303188-3	$48.99^?$: US dollar		digital audio download^?Digital recording in any format that is downloaded directly from the Internet. This category includes podcasts.	coll	Ulf Andersen
The Neil Gaiman Reader: Selected Fiction	2020-10-20	Neil Gaiman	HarperCollins B and Blackstone Publishing	978-1-79994-282-5	$55.99^?$: US dollar		audio MP3 CD^?Compact disc with mp3-encoded audio tracks	coll	Ulf Andersen
The Neil Gaiman Reader: Selected Fiction	2020-10-20	Neil Gaiman	William Morrow / HarperCollins	978-0-06-303185-2	$40.00^?$: US dollar	736	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	coll	Ulf Andersen
The Neil Gaiman Reader: Selected Fiction	2020-10-20	Neil Gaiman	Headline	978-1-4722-8230-9	£30.00^?£: UK pound	752	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	coll
The Neil Gaiman Reader: Selected Fiction	2020-10-20	Neil Gaiman	HarperAudio	978-0-06-303188-3	$55.90^?$: US dollar		digital audio download^?Digital recording in any format that is downloaded directly from the Internet. This category includes podcasts.	coll	Ulf Andersen
The Neil Gaiman Reader: Selected Fiction	2020-10-20	Neil Gaiman	William Morrow / HarperCollins	978-0-06-303187-6	$29.99^?$: US dollar		ebook^?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.	coll	Ulf Andersen
The Neil Gaiman Reader: Selected Fiction	2020-11-10	Neil Gaiman	HarperLuxe	978-0-06-303238-5	$42.00^?$: US dollar	608	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	coll	Ulf Andersen
Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders	date unknown	Neil Gaiman	Harper	978-0-06-051523-2	$7.99^?$: US dollar	xxxiii+ 363	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	coll
Smoke and Mirrors: Short Fictions and Illusions	date unknown	Neil Gaiman	Headline Review	978-0-7553-2283-1	£7.99^?£: UK pound	384	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	coll
Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders	date unknown	Neil Gaiman	Harper	978-0-06-051523-2	$7.99^?$: US dollar	xxxiii+ 363	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	coll
Smoke and Mirrors: Short Fictions and Illusions	date unknown	Neil Gaiman	Headline Review	978-0-7553-2283-1	£7.99^?£: UK pound	384	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	coll
Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders	date unknown	Neil Gaiman	Harper	978-0-06-051523-2	$7.99^?$: US dollar	xxxiii+ 363	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	coll
Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders	date unknown	Neil Gaiman	Harper	978-0-06-051523-2	$7.99^?$: US dollar	xxxiii+ 363	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	coll
Smoke and Mirrors: Short Fictions and Illusions	date unknown	Neil Gaiman	Headline Review	0-7553-2283-5	£7.99^?£: UK pound	384	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	coll
Smoke and Mirrors: Short Fiction and Illusions	date unknown	Neil Gaiman	Headline Feature	0-7472-6368-X	£6.99^?£: UK pound	431	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	coll	J. K. Potter

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Reviews

Review by Charles de Lint (2008) in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, October-November 2008
Review by Charles de Lint (2008) in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, October-November 2008