This book examines the use of cryptography in both real and fictional
crimes—a topic that is rarely broached. It discusses famous crimes,
such as that of the Zodiac Killer, that revolve around cryptic
messages and current uses of encryption that make solving cases harder
and harder. It then draws parallels with the use of cryptography and
secret writing in crime fiction, starting with Edgar Allan Poe and
Arthur Conan Doyle, claiming that there is an implicit principle in
all such writing—namely, that if the cryptogram is deciphered then
the crime itself reveals its structure. The general conclusion drawn
is that solving crimes is akin to solving cryptograms, as the crime
fiction writers suggested. Cases of cryptographic crime, from unsolved
cold cases to the Mafia crimes, are discussed and mapped against this
basic theoretical assumption. The book concludes by suggesting that by
studying cryptographic crimes the key to understanding crime may be
revealed.
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ISBN
9781433143922
Publisert
2018
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Vendor
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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