Cains Jawbone

Author : Edward Powys Mathers
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,5 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 : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1934
Category : Puzzles
ISBN : LCCN:35002454

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The Torquemada Puzzle Book by Edward Powys Mathers Pdf

Author : Nicholas Blake
Publisher : Random House
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2012-05-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781446476819

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The Smiler With The Knife by Nicholas Blake Pdf

Detective Nigel Strangeways, and his explorer wife Georgia have taken a cottage in the countryside. They are slowly beginning to adjust to a more relaxed way of life when Georgia finds a mysterious locket in their garden and unwittingly sets the couple on a collision course with a power-hungry movement aimed at overthrowing the government. It will take all of Nigel's brilliance and Georgia's bravery if they are to infiltrate the order and unmask the conspirators.

Author : Dimitris Chassapakis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 48,9 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.

Author : Alfred Hitchcock
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Children's stories
ISBN : 0370009851

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Alfred Hitchcock's Solve-them-yourself Mysteries by Alfred Hitchcock Pdf

A collection of five mystery stories, in which clues are provided for the reader to solve the mystery himself.

Author : Nick Bantock
Publisher : Chronicle Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1991-08-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0877017883

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Griffin and Sabine by Nick Bantock Pdf

Don't miss The Pharos Gate, the final volume in the Griffin & Sabine story. Published simultaneously with the 25th-anniversary edition of Griffin & Sabine, the book finally shares what happened to the lovers. Griffin: It's good to get in touch with you at last. Could I have one of your fish postcards? I think you were right—the wine glass has more impact than the cup. –Sabine But Griffin had never met a woman named Sabine. How did she know him? How did she know his artwork? Who is she? Thus begins the strange and intriguing correspondence of Griffin and Sabine. And since each letter must be pulled from its own envelope, the reader has the delightful, forbidden sensation of reading someone else's mail. Griffin & Sabine is like no other illustrated novel: appealing to the poet and artist in everyone and sure to inspire a renaissance in the fine art of letter-writing, it tells an extraordinary story in an extraordinary way.

Author : Geoff Ryman
Publisher : HarperPerennial
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 52,9 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 : Melissa de la Cruz
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2020-02-04
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780525515913

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The Queen's Assassin by Melissa de la Cruz Pdf

A New York Times and Indie Bestseller! Perfect for fans of Sarah J. Maas and Red Queen, this is the first novel in a sweeping YA fantasy-romance duet about a deadly assassin, his mysterious apprentice, and the country they are sworn to protect from #1 NYT bestselling author Melissa de la Cruz. Caledon Holt is the kingdom's deadliest weapon. No one alive can best him in speed, strength, or brains, which is why he's the Hearthstone Guild's most dangerous member. Cal is also the Queen's Assassin, bound to her by magic and unable to leave her service until the task she's set for him is fulfilled. Shadow of the Honey Glade has been training all her life to join the Guild, hoping that one day she'll become an assassin as feared and revered as Cal. But Shadow's mother and aunts expect her to serve the crown as a lady of the Renovian Court. When a surprise attack brings Shadow and Cal together, they're forced to team up as assassin and apprentice. Even though Shadow's life belongs to the court and Cal's belongs to the queen, they cannot deny their attraction to each other. But now, with war on the horizon and true love at risk, Shadow and Cal will uncover a shocking web of lies that will change their paths forever.

Author : Rod Gillies
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2020-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798652236342

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Extraordinary Investigations by Rod Gillies Pdf

Solve puzzles, crack codes, and follow the clues to reveal the plot of a conspiracy thriller in an exciting cross between an escape room and a novel, where you are the hero. Join the Extraordinary Investigations Unit and take on your first case, the mysterious disappearance of researcher Louis Morgan, last seen on the trail of a secret cache of Nazi gold. From the dying days of World War II to the modern day, this interactive puzzle novel sees you uncover a twisted tale of espionage, deceit, and murder - a missing investigator, a lost treasure, a sinister conspiracy. Each chapter of the story is revealed through an Evidence File containing notes, photos, fragments of documents, maps, and newspaper articles. Hidden within the book's pages you'll find cleverly-designed puzzles and clues through which the story is told - offering hours of intriguing investigation. The book is filled with a variety of challenges - ciphers and codes, visual puzzles, translation, number and symbol puzzles, as well as questions requiring online detective work. Regardless of the type of puzzle needing solved, the book includes a 3-tier hint system to ensure you'll never get totally stuck. Whilst the book contains no explicit or violent imagery, the unfolding story explores adult themes of conspiracy, corruption, and murder, and may be unsuitable for children under 13. Please note: checking solutions and tracking progress will require an internet connection.

Author : Mónica Ojeda
Publisher : Dead Ink Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2022-10-06
Category : Horror fiction
ISBN : 1838171622

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Jawbone by Mónica Ojeda Pdf

"Was desire something like being possessed by a nightmare?" Fernanda and Annelise are so close they are practically sisters: a double image, inseparable. So how does Fernanda end up bound on the floor of a deserted cabin, held hostage by one of her teachers and estranged from Annelise? When Fernanda, Annelise, and their friends meet up after school, Annelise leads them in thrilling but increasingly dangerous rituals to a rhinestoned, Dior-scented, drag-queen god of her own invention. Even more perilous is the secret Annelise and Fernanda share, rooted in a dare in which violence meets love. Meanwhile, their literature teacher, who is obsessed with imitating her dead mother, struggles to preserve her deteriorating sanity. Each day she edges nearer to a total break with reality. Interweaving pop culture references and horror concepts drawn from Herman Melville, H. P. Lovecraft, and anonymous "creepypastas," Jawbone is an ominous, multivocal novel that explores the terror inherent in the pure potentiality of adolescence and the fine line between desire and fear.

Author : Charlie Wheeler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2019-11-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1700250299

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The Paper Labyrinth by Charlie Wheeler Pdf

Gather all your wits for this book-wide riddle solving, puzzle completing adventure. Can you solve it? To solve The Paper Labyrinth, you will need to flick from page to page solving a maze of interconnected riddles and puzzles. Each puzzle will either send you to another page, or give you a component for a puzzle that you are already solving. The Paper Labyrinth is suitable for all ages - adults and kids alike, but recommended for ages 11+. The puzzles and riddles within are of a range of difficulties to hopefully cater for most audiences. If you ever get stuck on a puzzle, there are hints and solutions pages within the book.

Author : Edward Powys Mathers
Publisher : Unbound Publishing
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 41,7 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 : Michael Lapidge,Malcolm Godden,Simon Keynes
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1997-02-13
Category : History
ISBN : 0521571472

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Anglo-Saxon England: Volume 25 by Michael Lapidge,Malcolm Godden,Simon Keynes Pdf

This volume brings to light material evidence to further our knowledge of Anglo-Saxon England.

Author : Luke Andrew Wilson
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0804734143

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Theaters of Intention by Luke Andrew Wilson Pdf

Early modern Britain witnessed a transformation in legal reasoning about human volition and intentional action. Examining the relation between law and theater in this period, this book reads plays by Shakespeare, Jonson, Marlowe, and others to demonstrate how legal understanding of willful human action pervades 16th- and 17th-century English drama.

Author : James Newlin,James W. Stone
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2023-07-14
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781000910193

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New Psychoanalytic Readings of Shakespeare by James Newlin,James W. Stone Pdf

It has been over two decades since the publication of the last major edited collection focused on psychoanalysis and early modern culture. In Shakespeare studies, the New Historicism and cognitive psychology have hindered a dynamic conversation engaging depth-oriented models of the mind from taking place. The essays in New Psychoanalytic Readings of Shakespeare: Cool Reason and Seething Brains seek to redress this situation, by engaging a broad spectrum of psychoanalytic theory and criticism, from Freud to the present, to read individual plays closely. These essays show how psychoanalytic theory helps us to rethink the plays’ history of performance; their treatment of gender, sexuality, and race; their view of history and trauma; and the ways in which they anticipate contemporary psychodynamic treatment. Far from simply calling for a conventional "return to Freud," the essays collected here initiate an exciting conversation between Shakespeare studies and psychoanalysis in the hopes of radically transforming both disciplines. It is time to listen, once again, to seething brains.