Cain's Jawbone: A Novel Problem: by Ernest Powys Mathers (aka Torquemada) by Amazonundefined
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"Originally published in a collection of word puzzles in 1930, this feels extremely ahead of its time in terms of experimental fiction. Part crossword puzzle, part murder mystery, this book puts you in the mindset of a detective that is just on the edge of solving the case." --
Peter Kulikowski,
Changing Hands
"If James Joyce and Agatha Christie had a literary love child, this would be it." --
Daily Telegraph
"A unique hybrid of word puzzle and whodunnit." --
Literary Review
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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
O autorze
Edward Powys Matherss (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 Cains 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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- Długość wersji drukowanej:100 str.
- Język:Angielski
- Wydawca:Exhibitions International
- Data publikacji:8 lipca 2021
- Wymiary:10.8 x 1.91 x 17.15 cm
- ISBN-10:1800180799
- ISBN-13:978-1800180796
- Author:Ernest Powys Mathers
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