No laughing matter: sales figures to Murdle the blood

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Oct 24, 2025by Alex Call

G T Karber

The Humour, Trivia and Puzzles category in NielsenIQ BookScan’s Total Consumer Market (TCM) has long been a provider of quirky stocking-filler books in the latter part of the year, but will the Murdle series continue to be a draw for shoppers for a third Christmas in a row?

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