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Cain's Jawbone: The world's most difficult literary puzzle and TikTok famous bestselling murder mystery sensation for fans of S, THE CYPER FILES, JOURNAL 29 and THE PAPER LABYRINTH True crime ’ Reader reviewerSix 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