Cain's Jawbone: A Novel Problem

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Known as Torquemada, he was acknowledged as a brilliant translator and a critic specialising in crime fiction. To make matters even more challenging, the prose is an enigmatic combination of literary allusions, word plays, spoonerisms and buried clues.

In such discerning company, how can you resist the charms of this most obscure and infuriating of puzzles? Hoch Elementary Ellery Queen Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine Enid Blyton Epistolary Novel EQMM Erle Stanley Gardner Freeman Wills Crofts G. This is a strange book, in that I’ve read every page of Cain’s Jawbone but haven’t read Cain’s Jawbone.

With both versions within easy reach, I'm now able to fully immerse myself in this original murder mystery.

I stabbed once,” declares page 38, “and even as I did so, I thought of skinny old Marat in his slipper bath, the nightcap about his forehead, the dim light of the candle, the shadow at the door, the stealthy tread of Charlotte Brontë with the undulled blade.

The novel has united people around the world in an obsessive quest to unearth the answer, generating online communities, prompting many to turn rooms of their homes into “murder walls” plastered with book pages — and inspiring one woman in Colorado to propose an artificial intelligence-based method for solving the novel, which is still in the trial phase. Amazingly, he received an answer that came 'from an elderly gentleman who lived in a nursing home in Nether Wallop,' who solved the problem in the 30s and even had a written congratulation from Torquemada. Furthermore, if those who decide the allocations of the real and unreal are cruel, mad or colossally wrong, what then?