The Torquemada Puzzle Book: A Miscellany of Crosswords, Acrostics, Anagrams, Verbal Pastimes and Problems, Etc., Etc. & Cain's Jawbone: A Torquemada Mystery Novel

[Mathers, Ernest Powys]; Torquemada [Pseudonym]

Published by Victor Gollancz Ltd, London, 1934

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First edition. 320 pp. + all of the unnumbered blank perforated pages at rear intact. Bound in publisher's red and black cloth with black spine lettering. Very Good, spine a little darkened, light wear. Lacking dust jacket. A few erased marginal notes in pencil. Rare. A book of puzzles containing the notoriously difficult bibliomystery Cain's Jawbone, which only three people have officially solved. The author's pseudonym, taken from the famous torturer of the Spanish Inquisition, has proven to be apt. As Mel Brooks put it in The History of the World Part 1, "Torquemada; do not employ him for compassion. Torquemada; do not beg him for forgiveness. Torquemada; do not ask him for mercy. Let's face it. you can't Torquemada anything.". Seller Inventory # 140945290

Bibliographic Details

Title: The Torquemada Puzzle Book: A Miscellany of ...
Publisher: Victor Gollancz Ltd, London
Publication Date: 1934
Edition: First edition.

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