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Review

  • '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

About the Author

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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  • ISBN: 9781800180796
  • Author: Edward Powys Mathers
  • Publisher: Unbound
  • Pages: 224
  • Format: Paperback
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Review

  • '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

About the Author

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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