Works by Edward Powys Mathers at Project Gutenberg Works by Edward Powys Mathers at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks) Works by Edward Powys Mathers at Faded...
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Cain's Jawbone is a murder mystery puzzle written by Edward Powys Mathers under the pseudonym "Torquemada". The puzzle was first published in 1934 as part...
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Edward Mathers may refer to: Edward Powys Mathers, English translator and poet Edward Peter Mathers, his father, British author, editor, and newspaper...
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Mathers is an English surname and may refer to: Edward Peter Mathers (1850–1924), British journalist and newspaper proprietor Edward Powys Mathers (1892–1939)...
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published from 1898 to 1904, and was in turn rendered into English by Edward Powys Mathers. A newer edition, Le livre des mille nuits et une nuit, was published...
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In Durban on 6 August 1885 Mathers married Mary Augusta Powys, a daughter of R. H. Powys who was a cousin of Thomas Powys, 4th Baron Lilford. The marriage...
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Powys Mathers' "Black Marigolds" as the source of the phrase "savoring of the hot taste of life" in his novel Performance Anomalies, and uses Mathers'...
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Notable translations are those of Sir Edwin Arnold(London 1896) and Edward Powys Mathers (Oxford, 1919) titled Black Marigolds. This latter version was quoted...
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incomplete quotations, and other references and wordplay. Torquemada (Edward Powys Mathers), who set for The Saturday Westminster from 1925 and for The Observer...
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thriller nevertheless", which is a view shared by "Torquemada" (Edward Powys Mathers), who called this "the least of all the Poirot books" and then concluded...
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1562–1624), Spanish friar, missionary and historian of the New World Edward Powys Mathers (1892–1939) (pseudonym Torquemada), British crossword setter Alonzo...
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cryptic crossword variation originated in Britain in the mid-1920s. Edward Powys Mathers set the first crossword to use entirely cryptic clues, originally...
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a prize for solving Cain's Jawbone, a literary puzzle created by Edward Powys Mathers in 1934. In 2023, Finnemore revealed he was writing a sequel to the...
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reading". In The Observer's issue of 6 January 1935, "Torquemada" (Edward Powys Mathers) said, "Her gift is pure genius, of leading the reader by the nose...
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unexciting clues." In The Observer's issue of 1 May 1938, "Torquemada" (Edward Powys Mathers) said, "I have to confess I have just been beaten again by Agatha...
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1936, in a review section entitled Supreme de Poirot, "Torquemada" (Edward Powys Mathers) wrote, "I was not the only one who thought that Poirot or his creator...
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besides. In The Observer's issue of 30 June 1935, "Torquemada" (Edward Powys Mathers) started his review, "My admiration for Mrs. Christie is such that...
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for Christmas". In The Observer of 18 December 1938, "Torquemada" (Edward Powys Mathers) finished his review by stating defensively, "'Is Hercule Poirot's...
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His translation, however, was incomplete. In 1923 a translation by Edward Powys Mathers based on the French translation by J. C. Mardrus appeared. Another...
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Ackroyd." In The Observer's issue of 5 January 1936, "Torquemada" (Edward Powys Mathers) wrote, "Ingenuity ... is a mild term for Mrs Christie's gift. In...
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devices." In The Observer's issue of 18 April 1937, "Torquemada" (Edward Powys Mathers) wrote: "It is rather for herself than for the four awkwardly shaped...
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(by orientalists such as Launcelot Cranmer-Byng, Herbert Giles, Edward Powys Mathers and Arthur Waley) to music, including Benjamin Britten in his cycle...
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absorbing tale". In The Observer 12 July 1936 issue, "Torquemada" (Edward Powys Mathers) wrote that "Agatha Christie tells a humorous, well-observed story...
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Mackenzie Scottish judge, styled Lord Mackenzie Andrew Marr – journalist Edward Powys Mathers – translator, poet, and pioneer cryptic crossword setter James Broom...
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characters." In The Observer's issue of 18 November 1934, "Torquemada" (Edward Powys Mathers) stated that Christie was, "the only consistently inspired practitioner...
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position of crossword compiler for The Observer on the death of Edward Powys Mathers, who had written under the name of "Torquemada". Macnutt selected...
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Secret Agent (1934) Todmanhawe Grange (completed after his death by Edward Powys Mathers as Torquemada, 1937) And Sudden Death (1938) Miscellaneous Stories...
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M'Diarmid Thomas MacGreevy Louis MacNeice Charles Madge John Masefield Edward Powys Mathers Alice Meynell Harold Monro Thomas Sturge Moore Henry Newbolt Robert...
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Bantock also set other English translationd of Chinese poetry from Edward Powys Mathers (Five Chinese Songs) and Herbert Giles (Ten Songs from the Chinese...
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Walter Savage Landor William Lisle Bowles Thomas Lodge A. E. W. Mason Edward Powys Mathers James Michie John Middleton Murry Sir Terence Rattigan CBE William...
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