Cryptology and literature

Articles to be made:

Texts employing cryptography in their intrigue

  • to see the site Ars cryptographica
  • In the universe of Sherlock Holmes: the news dancing Men and Gloria Scott of Conan Doyle; the giant rat of Sumatra of Richard Boyer: holes of pins in an article of newspaper; double disappearance of Nancy Springer: Enola Holmes, the sister of Sherlock, leaves to research his/her mother using coded messages that it left him.
  • the news “the gold beetle” of the extraordinary Stories of Edgar Allan Poe: to see the detailed article cryptology in “the gold beetle”
  • Voyage in the center of the Earth of Jules Verne: forwarding in the center of the Earth is started following the decoding of a secret message.
  • Mathias Sandorf of Jules Verne: use of a grid of Cardan joint.
  • Jangada of Jules Verne: a man judged for a crime that it did not make sees his safety related to the deciphering of a coded text which could clear it.
  • Digital Fortress of Dan Brown: and if the NSA had a supercomputer able to decipher any message?
  • the manuscript of Pythias of Paul Doherty: Alexandre the Large one is about to attack Halicarnasse and a coded text would mention the site of a fault in the fortifications of the city.
  • the conjecture of Fermat of Jean d' Aillon: the notary Louis Fronsac inquires into escapes concerning the codes used by the French diplomacy and asks the mathematician Pierre de Fermat to improve the repertory developped at the point by Antoine Rossignol.
  • Enigma of Robert Harris: mix the documentary one on Bletchley Park and of lovesong, with a hero vaguely inspired of Alan Turing. At summer adapted out of film.
  • the theorem of Kinglet of Frederic Cathala: destinies interfered several protagonists at the time of the First World War, of which a spy with the catches with the Figure ADFGVX.
  • Companions of silence of Paul Féval.
  • the novels the needle digs and 813 of Maurice Leblanc putting in scene Arsène Lupin
  • Moonfleet of John Meade Falkner: the young hero finds a medallion locating the treasure of Black Beard and containing Psalms.
  • adventures of Hugh Corbett by Paul Doherty: the book of the magician : the English of Edouard Ier and the French of Philippe the Beautiful one link their efforts to decipher a manuscript of brother Roger Bacon; the assassin of Sherwood : it is necessary to decode a message indicating where Philippe the Beautiful one will invade the Flanders.

In literature Youth:

  • adventures of Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer: each volume comprises a coded message.
  • Unknown at this address of Kathrin Kressmann Taylor: exchange of letters between a Jew and his German friend which betrayed it.
  • the enigma Vermeer and the enigma of the house Robie of Blue Balliett: children communicate by a code using the Pentamino S, parts of puzzles having the shape of letters. Moreover, the illustrations of these novels by Brett Helquist contain drawings hidden in connection with the intrigue.
  • Aladdin and the crime of the library of Marie and Joseph.
  • the series Ulysses Moore
  • Grimpow, the elected official of the templiers of Rafael Abalos: a young vagrant recovers a stone with the amazing capacities and which will modify its life.

Books with constraint

Georges Perec

Jacques Roubaud

Raymond Queneau

Umberto Eco

Others

Historical novels

See too

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