Cain's Jawbone: A Novel Problem

beats a jigsaw any day

These were given as gifts. Infuriated recipients but they won't give up

Bought this direct from the publishers but thought a review here would be useful to others.What you get here is 100 pages of densely written crime fiction. The pages are numbered but they don’t belong in that order. You have a massive number of possible books. Your task is to work out the order the pages should be in. It is a task that is fascinating, addictive, infuriating, and all-consuming. Characters come and go, places and events are mentioned, experienced, predicted. This gives the whole ‘book’ a quality very like a dream.I am loving it. First read through just to get the feel for the story components. Next I will have a pencil and a notebook with me to jot down things that might, or might not, be useful.How many possible combinations are there? It’s best not to do the maths. Just keep reminding yourself that there is only 1 correct arrangement. Note: answer is not supplied with the book

Very disappointed to find all pages 40 to 50 are missing !!! How the hell does that happen???? Was really looking forward to this

This is a fantastic idea, let's see if I am clever enough to solve it. No such luck so far. Great quality.

I was one of those who backed having this puzzle remade. It was written and designed in 1934 by the gentleman most recognised by his crossword puzzle pen name - Torquemada.The conceit is that you have a novel of 100 pages, a murder mystery, but the pages are out of order and you must put them back into the correct order before then solving the murder mystery.This version has each page on its own card. My version (I don't know with what is publicly available) has a booklet with information and background. It comes in a cardboard box with artwork by Tom Gauld.I'm still working on it. Perhaps someone out there has already solved it and can claim the £1000 prize for doing it within the first year since this was reprinted, perhaps not.