Best known for his work on Cabin Pressure and the BBC’s John Finnemore’s Souvenir Programme, John Finnemore has won many awards, including the Writers’ Guild of Great Britain Outstanding Contribution to Writing Award in 2020.

 His latest work is a response to Cain’s Jawbone, an astonishing 1934 literary puzzle which saw a murder mystery published in 1934 with the pages out of order. The challenge to readers was to reassemble the book with the pages in the correct order, with a cash prize offered to the first person to do so. 

 Only two people solved the book in the 1930s, and the first person to solve it since was John Finnemore.

 Now Finnemore has created his own version of Cain’s Jawbone – entitled The Researcher’s First Murder – with publisher Unbound offering a £1000 prize to the first person to crack this new puzzle. 

 In this special event, Finnemore will join Unbound co-founder John Mitchinson on stage to discuss the undertaking before answering audience questions and signing copies of the book.