Thursday, November 12, 2020

Cain's Jawbone

Cain’s Jawbone, one of the more demanding puzzles of the 20th century, was recently solved for the third time. 


 

"It is a whodunnit mystery novel with a structural twist, in that its 100 pages appear out of sequence, making the plot unintelligible and obscuring the identities of the murderers and their victims. The task is to find the correct page order, working out in the process who dun what to whom."
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