Sentence examples for literary puzzles from inspiring English sources

They would leave funny notes and drawings around the house, literary puzzles, playful poems on doors.

There's one nice thing about literary puzzles — the clues don't normally involve bloody pentacles or symbolically displayed body parts.

Mr. Prichard is on the telephone from Wales talking about his famous grandmother because today is the 100th anniversary of the birth of the mystery writer whose skillful plots and clever literary puzzles have delighted millions upon millions of readers around the world for most of this century.

On the occasion of this anniversary, I offer a few reflections on one of the many mysteries Eco presents us, mysteries that make returning to the abbey so much fun for those who enjoy literary puzzles.

Pale Fire may be the most intricate and aesthetically rewarding literary puzzle ever devised.

ONWARD & UPWARD WITH THE ARTS about Elizabeth S. Kingsley, inventor & sole producer of the Double-Crostic literary puzzle.

Kafka, the man still considered a literary puzzle 84 years after his death, "is causing the world to hold its breath," Germany's Die Welt newspaper wrote.

By Philip Hamburger The New Yorker, December 11 , 1943P. 62 ONWARD & UPWARD WITH THE ARTS about Elizabeth S. Kingsley, inventor & sole producer of the Double-Crostic literary puzzle.

But she doesn't insist strenuously on her thesis: the book is less a work of scholarly debate-resolving than a tantalizing exercise in literary puzzle-making.

Wainewright was a famous liar, and Motion makes him the standard unreliable narrator, so the confession becomes a kind of literary puzzle, which the notes seem to resolve.

Darren professed himself pleased to have played a part in what he called "the greatest story in the history of blogging, and probably the biggest literary puzzle in the UK this century".