Le principe : on commence par découper les pages et il s'agira de les remettre dans l'ordre afin de découvrir un/des meurtrier(s), les victimes, etc.

View image in fullscreen Cain’s Jawbone by Edward Powys Mathers ‘the world’s most difficult literary puzzle’. Scannell decided to try to find the right sequence by fulfilling a “lifelong dream”, as she put it, to turn her “entire bedroom wall into a murder board”.

The Laurence Sterne Trust has used the increased notoriety of Cain's Jawbone in the early 2020s to promote experimental forms in the novel. The latter had become obsessed with discovering the solution to Cain's Jawbone after coming across a second hand copy. In November 2020 it was announced that comedian and crossword compiler John Finnemore had correctly solved the puzzle, [3] doing so over a period of six months during the COVID-19 lockdown. Most intriguingly of all, the puzzle seems to have captured the imagination of a generation that is supposedly spoilt by technological ease. 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.

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