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Table of Contents

Guide

Heres the solution to the code hidden

on the very last page of this book:

YOU BROKE THE CODE!

YOU SURE ARE BRIGHT!

C

ould it be? Had enemy spies sneaked into

the United States? The country had not

yet entered World War II, but had the war now

come to American soil?

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)

had intercepted hundreds of coded messages

from a secret base in New York but couldnt

read them. Someone had to crack the code. But

who? The FBI turned to one special woman to

decipher the secret messages...

The artwork in this book was painted by hand

in watercolor and gouache, and assembled digitally.

Cataloging-in-Publication Data has been applied for and may

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ISBN 978-1-4197-3963-7
eISBN 978-1-68335-704-9

Text copyright 2021 Laurie Wallmark

Illustrations copyright 2021 Brooke Smart

Rhyming verse on final page by Leslie Tran

Book design by Heather Kelly

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Elizebeth Smith Friedman, a cryptanalyst with a stellar reputation,

agreed to work with the FBI on their top-secret project. And once

shed broken the codes, she discovered the senders were indeed

spiesNazis! At the trial, the content of those deciphered messages

provided the hard evidence needed to send thirty-three German

spies to prison. According to the FBI, Elizebeths work resulted in the

greatest spy roundup in American history.

And to think, if not for a chance encounter with a librarian more

than twenty-five years earlier, Elizebeth might never have become a

code breaker at all.

As a child Elizebeth loved to read, especially poetry.

One of her favorite poets was William Shakespeare.

His poetry showed structure and patterns, just like

she would later look for in coded messages.

Fascinated with languages, Elizebeth majored in English

literature at college and also studied Latin, Greek, and

German. She graduated in 1915 and worked for a year

as a high school principal. After that, Elizebeth went to

Chicago, looking for a job in research or literature.

While in town, she couldnt wait to stop by the Newberry Library to see

their famous collection of Shakespeares plays. When Elizebeth mentioned

she needed a job, the librarian introduced her to George Fabyan, an eccentric

multimillionaire and fellow Shakespeare fan. Fabyan invited her to join other

researchers at his Illinois estate, Riverbank. He was convinced Francis Bacon,

a famous scientist and author, was the real creator of Shakespeares plays.

To prove this, Fabyan wanted Elizebeth to find secret messages Bacon had

supposedly hidden in the plays.

Little did she know how peculiar her new boss would turn out to be.

Fabyan kept monkeys on his estate. He raised honeybees inside his house,

the Villa, because he didnt trust them to make honey unless he supervised.

Most unusual of all, he hung his furniture from the ceiling on chains.

The more Elizebeth studied the plays, the more she believed there werent

any secret messages.

She shared her suspicions with one of her scientist friends, William

Friedman, and he agreed. Elizebeth and Williams discussions soon changed

from codes hidden in Shakespeares plays to codes in general. They spent

their free time indulging in their favorite gamewriting secret notes and

challenging each other to decode them. As their code making and code

breaking skills grew, so did their friendship.

Friendship turned to love, and within a year,

Elizebeth and William married.

After the United States entered World War I

in 1917, the government needed people to decode

spy messages. Fabyan asked Elizebeth and William to

set up the countrys first code-breaking unit, the Riverbank

Department of Ciphers. For eight months, the American military

brought all secret enemy communications to Riverbank for decoding.

Elizebeth, William, and their staff developed many new code-breaking

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