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CAIN’S JAWBONE
Deluxe Box Set TORQUEMADA
A limited-edition Deluxe Box Set of Cain’s Jawbone: a viral sensation and the world’s most fiendishly difficult literary puzzle
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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.
Cain’s Jawbone has now sold more than half a million copies and been published in twelve languages so far. This Deluxe Box Set is a limited edition which will be hand-numbered and cased in a beautiful, newly designed box.
Title: Cain’s Jawbone: Deluxe Box Set
Pub date: 05/10/2023
Format: Hardback
Price: £25.00
ISBN: 978-1-80018-291-2
Rights: World
Fiction
Edward Powys Mathers (1892-1939) introduced the cryptic crossword to the UK 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 hundred pages of which contained the novel-cum-puzzle Cain’s Jawbone.
