The Cain's Jawbone Book of Crosswords
Autor Edward Powys Mathers Will Shortzen Limba Engleză Paperback – 25 sep 2023
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. 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?
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781789651669
ISBN-10: 1789651662
Pagini: 400
Dimensiuni: 127 x 195 x 33 mm
Greutate: 0.34 kg
Editura: Unbound
ISBN-10: 1789651662
Pagini: 400
Dimensiuni: 127 x 195 x 33 mm
Greutate: 0.34 kg
Editura: Unbound
Notă biografică
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.