Cain S Jawbone The Torquemada Puzzle Book

Author : Edward Powys Mathers
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2023-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1460765397

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Cain's Jawbone by Edward Powys Mathers Pdf

Six murders. One hundred pages. Millions of possible combinations... but only one is correct. Can you solve Torquemada's murder mystery? 'If James Joyce and Agatha Christie had a literary love child, this would be it.' The Daily Telegraph 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. Only three puzzlers have ever solved the mystery of Cain's Jawbone: do you have what it takes to join their ranks? Please note: this puzzle is extremely difficult and not for the faint-hearted. 'A unique hybrid of word puzzle and whodunnit.' Literary Review

Author : Edward Powys Mathers
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1934
Category : Puzzles
ISBN : LCCN:35002454

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The Torquemada Puzzle Book by Edward Powys Mathers Pdf

Author : Edward Powys Mathers
Publisher : Camelot Editora
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2023-06-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 6585168291

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Cain's Jawbone (The Torquemada Puzzle Book) by Edward Powys Mathers Pdf

Published by the British author Edward Powys Mathers, under the pseudonym of Torquemada, this literary puzzle is considered to be the hardest in the world. As you read and analyze each part of this intriguing plot, the reader finds himself immersed in an investigative and challenging suspense and is encouraged to use logic and analyze the details, in order to become a true detective. Who are the victims? And the killers? This unique novel invites you to discover. Six mysterious murder crimes and their respectiveexecutors. A series of clues and riddles carefully hidden in parts of a randomly printed plot, and only one correct order out of millions of combinations to reveal the real culprits and solve the mystery. This is the proposal of the police thriller Cain's Jawbone, by Edward Powys Mathers, whose work won the public's attention due to the incredibly enigmatic content that, almost ninety years later, reignited the fascination of readers from all around the world.

Author : Jim Bernhard
Publisher : Skyhorse Publishing Inc.
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2010-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781616080143

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Words Gone Wild by Jim Bernhard Pdf

A lighthearted but scholarly guide to humorous language includes puns from Greek dramatists, Shakespeare, and the Bible, in addition to puzzles, tongue twisters, and other kinds of word play.

Author : Edward Powys Mathers
Publisher : Unbound Publishing
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2023-09-21
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9781800183278

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The Cain's Jawbone Book of Crosswords by Edward Powys Mathers Pdf

“If you’re ready for an extra-hard, old-time challenge, have at it!”-- Will Shortz From the creator and publisher behind the viral sensation Cain's Jawbone: A Very Novel Mystery, is a collection of 112 difficult cryptic crossword puzzles. Before Edward Powys Mathers wrote the world's most fiendishly difficult literary puzzle, he was a cryptic crossword creator. Under his pseudonym "Torquemada", his puzzles would taunt readers for days. He created his first cryptic crossword puzzle in 1924 and went on to set them for the Saturday Westminster and the Observer for the next 15 years. His true identity was only revealed when he died in 1939. As well as earning the reputation for setting the world's toughest crosswords, Torquemada - or 'Torq' as he was often referred to - was also delightfully creative: with many puzzles written in perfectly constructed verse, or delivered as mini-narratives to their solvers. There's even a version where the clues are knock-knock jokes. For many years cryptic crosswords were simply known as puzzles in the 'Torquemada style'. This selection of Torquemada's best crosswords was originally published in 1942 and contains three short accounts of Torquemada's life and achievements, including one by his widow, R.C. Mathers as well as a foreword by the crossword puzzle editor for the New York Times, Will Shortz. The successful revival of Cain's Jawbone has inspired a new generation of puzzle solvers. Here then is the next challenge for Torquemada's fans - dare you take it on?

Author : Emily Bronte
Publisher : Thomas Nelson
Page : 415 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2019-12-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780785236542

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Wuthering Heights (Seasons Edition -- Winter) by Emily Bronte Pdf

“My love for Linton is like the foliage in the woods: time will change it, I’m well aware, as winter changes the trees. My love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath: a source of little visible delight, but necessary.” – Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte In the classic Wuthering Heights Catherine is forced to choose between passionate, tortured gypsy Heathcliff and gentle, well-bred Edgar Linton. Catherine surrenders to the expectations of her class and sets off a domino effect with lasting consequences. As Heathcliff's bitterness and vengeance at his betrayal are visited upon the next generation, their innocent heirs must struggle to escape the legacy of the lovers tortured past. This e-book includes select, highly designed pages featuring quotes about the winter season. The Seasons Edition - Winter collection includes Little Women, Pride and Prejudice, A Tale of Two Cities, and Wuthering Heights.

Author : Mark Z. Danielewski
Publisher : Pantheon
Page : 738 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2000-03-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780375420528

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House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski Pdf

“A novelistic mosaic that simultaneously reads like a thriller and like a strange, dreamlike excursion into the subconscious.” —The New York Times Years ago, when House of Leaves was first being passed around, it was nothing more than a badly bundled heap of paper, parts of which would occasionally surface on the Internet. No one could have anticipated the small but devoted following this terrifying story would soon command. Starting with an odd assortment of marginalized youth -- musicians, tattoo artists, programmers, strippers, environmentalists, and adrenaline junkies -- the book eventually made its way into the hands of older generations, who not only found themselves in those strangely arranged pages but also discovered a way back into the lives of their estranged children. Now this astonishing novel is made available in book form, complete with the original colored words, vertical footnotes, and second and third appendices. The story remains unchanged, focusing on a young family that moves into a small home on Ash Tree Lane where they discover something is terribly wrong: their house is bigger on the inside than it is on the outside. Of course, neither Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist Will Navidson nor his companion Karen Green was prepared to face the consequences of that impossibility, until the day their two little children wandered off and their voices eerily began to return another story -- of creature darkness, of an ever-growing abyss behind a closet door, and of that unholy growl which soon enough would tear through their walls and consume all their dreams.

Author : Dimitris Chassapakis
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2020-11-05
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9780241481752

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The Cypher Files by Dimitris Chassapakis Pdf

THE ULTIMATE GIFT FOR WANNABE SPIES: AN INTERACTIVE PUZZLE BOOK FROM THE CREATOR OF THE BESTSELLING CULT PHENOMENON, JOURNAL 29! In this brain-bending interactive game, you'll solve puzzles on every page, and obtain keys to move forward by submitting answers online. To solve each puzzle, you'll need to think outside the book. You are an agent of CY.P.H.E.R., the secret international agency working on 'unsolvable' code-based cases. Called upon to investigate cryptic clues discovered in the wake of a series of mysterious disappearances, the clock is ticking to crack the codes before it's too late. To escape this book, you must write, draw, search, fold and cut pages, explore virtual escape rooms and think laterally to identify the perpetrator and solve the mystery. All you need to play is a pencil, a pair of scissors, an internet connection, and a curious mind.

Author : E. Powys Mathers
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2024-05-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783387334364

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The Garden of Bright Waters; One Hundred And Twenty Asiatic Love Poems by E. Powys Mathers Pdf

Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.

Author : Christopher Manson
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1985-11-15
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 0805010882

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Maze by Christopher Manson Pdf

This is not really a book. This is a building in the shape of a book...a maze. Each numbered page depicts a room in the maze. Tempted? Test your wits against mine. I guarantee that my maze will challenge you to think in ways you've never thought before. But beware. One wrong turn and you may never escape!

Author : Geoff Ryman
Publisher : HarperPerennial
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : City and town life
ISBN : STANFORD:36105021149039

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253 by Geoff Ryman Pdf

A Bakerline tube carriage has 36 seats. An ideally filled tube train with no-one standing would carry 252 passengers. The driver makes 253. Each has their own personal history, their own thoughts about themselves and their fellow passengers.

Author : Steven Hall
Publisher : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2008-04-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781555847685

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The Raw Shark Texts by Steven Hall Pdf

This genre-bending national bestseller is “a horror-dystopic-philosophical mash-up, drawing comparisons to Borges, The Matrix and Jaws” (The New York Times Magazine). Eric Sanderson wakes up in a house he doesn’t recognize, unable to remember anything of his life. A note instructs him to call a Dr. Randle, who informs him that he is undergoing yet another episode of memory loss, and that for the last two years—since the tragic death of his great love, Clio, while vacationing in Greece—he’s been suffering from an acute dissociative disorder. But there may be more to the story, or it may be a different story altogether. With the help of allies found on the fringes of society, Eric embarks on an edge-of-your-seat journey to uncover the truth about himself and escape the predatory forces that threaten to consume him. Moving with the pace and momentum of a superb thriller, exploring ideas about language and information, as well as identity, this is ultimately a novel about the magnitude of love and the devastating effect of losing that love. “Paced like a thriller, it reads like a deluge . . . Herman Melville meets Michael Crichton, or Thomas Pynchon meets Douglas Adams.” —San Francisco Chronicle “Rousingly inventive.” —The Washington Post “Unforgettable fiction.” —Playboy “A thriller that will haunt you.” —GQ “Sharp and clear . . . Writing on the edge of the form.” —Los Angeles Times “Huge fun, and I gleefully recommend it.” —Audrey Niffenegger, international–bestselling author of The Time Traveler’s Wife “Fast, sexy, intriguing, intelligent.” —Toby Litt

Author : Espen J. Aarseth
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1997-09-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0801855799

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Cybertext by Espen J. Aarseth Pdf

Do the rapidly expanding genres of digital literature mean that the narrative mode--novels, films, television drama--is losing its dominant position in our culture? Author Espen Aarseth eases our fears of literary loss (at least temporarily) by pointing out that electronic text requires an interactive response to generate a literary sequence. Where's the fun if you have to write your own ending? 21 illustrations.

Author : Zachary Thomas Dodson
Publisher : Doubleday
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2015-10-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780385539845

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Bats of the Republic by Zachary Thomas Dodson Pdf

"Archetypes of the cowboy story, tropes drawn from sci-fi, love letters, diaries, confessions all abound in this relentlessly engaging tale. Dodson has quite brilliantly exposed the gears and cogs whirring in the novelist’s imagination. It is a mad and beautiful thing.” --Keith Donohue, The Washington Post Winner of Best of Region for the Southwest in PRINT’s 2016 Regional Design Awards Bats of the Republic is an illuminated novel of adventure, featuring hand-drawn maps and natural history illustrations, subversive pamphlets and science-fictional diagrams, and even a nineteenth-century novel-within-a-novel—an intrigue wrapped in innovative design. In 1843, fragile naturalist Zadock Thomas must leave his beloved in Chicago to deliver a secret letter to an infamous general on the front lines of the war over Texas. The fate of the volatile republic, along with Zadock’s future, depends on his mission. When a cloud of bats leads him off the trail, he happens upon something impossible... Three hundred years later, the world has collapsed and the remnants of humanity cling to a strange society of paranoia. Zeke Thomas has inherited a sealed envelope from his grandfather, an esteemed senator. When that letter goes missing, Zeke engages a fomenting rebellion that could free him—if it doesn’t destroy his relationship, his family legacy, and the entire republic first. As their stories overlap and history itself begins to unravel, a war in time erupts between a lost civilization, a forgotten future, and the chaos of the wild. Bats of the Republic is a masterful novel of adventure and science fiction, of elliptical history and dystopian struggle, and, at its riveting core, of love.

Author : Dimitris Chassapakis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2017-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1635871727

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Journal 29 by Dimitris Chassapakis Pdf

Journal 29 is a unique book game where you can solve riddles and puzzles and submit your answers online to get the keys and move forward.To solve the riddles, you need to think out of the box.You can write, draw, search, fold pages, combine different methods and try to get those riddles right.Journal 29 is a 148 pages book providing over 63 riddles you can solve.