From the raft of novels available to the modern reader, we've picked a collection that includes a variety of genres by a some well-known authors and some lesser-known and foreign ones. Some may be your favorites already; some you might want to add to your list. Accompanying the solution to each of the 40 puzzles is a short description of the work, some biographical information about the author, and where to find more detail - an appropriate add-on to the usual challenging fun for fans of acrostics. Note that the clue misprints and the evidently disliked coincidences of two letters in a single word in the text tying back to the same clued word have been considerably reduced in copies printed since the beginning of November 2021.
From the raft of novels available to the modern reader, we've picked a collection that includes a variety of genres by a some well-known authors and some lesser-known and foreign ones. Some may be your favorites already; some you might want to add to your list. Accompanying the solution to each of the 40 puzzles is a short description of the work, some biographical information about the author, and where to find more detail - an appropriate add-on to the usual challenging fun for fans of acrostics. Note that the clue misprints and the evidently disliked coincidences of two letters in a single word in the text tying back to the same clued word have been considerably reduced in copies printed since the beginning of November 2021.
