Cain's Jawbone Book of Crosswords
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Edward Powys Mathers (18921939) introduced the cryptic crossword to Britain in 1926 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 hundred pages of which contained the novel-cum-puzzle Cains Jawbone. His true identity was only revealed when he died in 1939 and this selection of Torquemadas best crosswords was originally published in 1942.