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Cain's Jawbone

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Notes From Your Bookseller
Notes From Your Bookseller

This novel must be solved to be read, and few have been able. Put your lateral thinking skills to the test – do you have what it takes?

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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 read...