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    John Finnemore to write Cain’s Jawbone murder-mystery sequel

    Feb 15, 2023 4 minutes

    A sequel to Cain’s Jawbone, a literary puzzle that has only been solved by a handful of people in the almost 90 years since it was published, is to be released.

    Cain’s Jawbone is a murder mystery in which six people die, and was written by Edward Powys Mathers, known as Torquemada, who was the Observer’s cryptic crossword compiler at the time of the book’s release in 1934.

    The mystery, originally published as part of The Torquemada Puzzle Book, can only be solved if readers rearrange its 100 pages in the correct order. It became a literary phenomenon after.

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