Crossword blog: a novel about the D-day crossword enigma

Welcome to the third in a trilogy of D-day posts. We've looked at the mystery of why Overlord codewords appeared in the Telegraph puzzle in the days before the landings and we've got to know, a little, the setter who gave the spies conniptions.

This time, we're meeting James Cary, a writer responsible for such things as The Casebook of Milton Jones, Miranda and Bluestone 42. Why so? D-day was the day of publication of his novel Crossword Ends in Violence (5), a story which involves codewords, puzzles and, well, the Normandy landings. Crosswords in fiction, eh? Sounds like something this blog should know about