Riddle of Scheherazade
Publisher: Random House Value Publishing
Published: May 11, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9780517370292
Subjects: Games; Games/Puzzles; Games / Puzzles; Sale Books; Puzzles
First sentence: It will be remembered that in the usual version of the Arabian Nights, a certain monarch, having reason to believe in the infidelity of his queen, not only had her put to death but vowed by his beard and the Prophet to espouse each night the most beautiful maiden in his dominions, and the next morning to deliver her to the executioner.