However, the 100 pages in the book are jumbled in the wrong order and the possible number of combinations is absurd-a number so large it is not viable to write it down here as it would have 158 digits.īack in the 1930s only two readers manager to solve the puzzle, and as a reward Mr S Sydney-Turner and Mr W S Kennedy both won £25. In the whodunnit book, six people die and the reader is invited to deduce who the murderer is. TikTok user Sarah Scannell has posted a series of videos of her attempting to solve the puzzle, racking up over 4 million views. The author, Edward Powys Mathers, created cryptic crosswords for The Observer under the pseudonym Torquemada from 1926 until his death in 1939, but his murder mystery book is often heralded as his crowning glory. Largely forgotten about by the general public, Unbound reissued a new edition of Cain’s Jawbone in July 2021, and now, thanks to a series of TikTok videos that went viral, the book has reached astonishing new heights, 87 years after it was first published.
Solving the mystery: literary puzzle book first published in 1934 becomes bestseller thanks to TikTokĬain’s Jawbone is a fiendish literary puzzle book that is almost impossible to solve.
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