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Puzzle#78: Farewell My Blubbery

23 September 2020

#78 Farewell My Blubbery

“The most interesting thing about Milly Farlowe’s latest ‘effort’ in the detective fiction genre is the page numbering: it starts at 1 and goes up to some highest number, a number of itself quite modest, but far too high for a plot of such flimsy construction.” Thus spake Zara Thrusta, the literary critic of the Daily Grind, dismissing her best friend’s new crime novel, Farewell My Blubbery.

Well, I had a look at the numbering and it was just as Thrusta had said. But I noticed something else. If you reverse the order of the…

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