The Cain's Jawbone Book of Crosswords: by Ernest Powys Mathers (aka Torquemada) - Softcover

Powys Mathers, Ernest

 
9781789651669: The Cain's Jawbone Book of Crosswords: by Ernest Powys Mathers (aka Torquemada)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1789651662 ISBN 13: 9781789651669
Verlag: Unbound, 2023

Inhaltsangabe

Six murders. One hundred pages. Millions of possible combinations… but only one is correct. Can you solve Torquemada’s murder mystery?
In 1934, the Observer’s cryptic crossword compiler, Edward Powys Mathers (aka Torquemada), released a novel that was simultaneously a murder mystery and the most fiendishly difficult literary puzzle ever written.
The pages have been printed in an entirely haphazard order, but it is possible – through logic and intelligent reading – to sort the pages into the only correct order, revealing six murder victims and their respective murderers.
Dare you take it on?

Please note: this puzzle is extremely difficult and not for the faint-hearted.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Edward Powys Mathers’s (1892 – 1939) introduced the cryptic crossword to Britain in 1924 through the pages of the Observer. Known as Torquemada, he was acknowledged as a brilliant translator and a critic specialising in crime fiction. In 1934 he published a selection of his puzzles under the title The Torquemada Puzzle Book - the final 100 pages of which contained the novel-cum-puzzle Cain’s Jawbone.

The book is being re-issued with the assistance of The Laurence Sterne Trust and Patrick Wildgust, the curator of Shandy Hall.

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Six murders. One hundred pages. Millions of possible combinations… but only one is correct. Can you solve Torquemada’s murder mystery?
In 1934, the Observer’s cryptic crossword compiler, Edward Powys Mathers (aka Torquemada), released a novel that was simultaneously a murder mystery and the most fiendishly difficult literary puzzle ever written.
The pages have been printed in an entirely haphazard order, but it is possible – through logic and intelligent reading – to sort the pages into the only correct order, revealing six murder victims and their respective murderers.
Dare you take it on?

Please note: this puzzle is extremely difficult and not for the faint-hearted.

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Verlag
Unbound
Erscheinungsdatum
2023
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1789651662
ISBN 13 
9781789651669
Einband
Tapa blanda
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
272
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Verantwortliche Person
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