Lately, I have been in the mood for puzzles. Helping me scratch that itch has been a book called S. by Doug Dorst and J. J. Abrams. When you unbox it, you find a novel called Ship of Theseus by V. M. Straka, a character who we learn either disappeared or died under mysterious circumstances.
But the real story here is in the marginalia, where two readers who have taken the book out of a library try to solve the mystery. Involving flyers, postcards and a decoder ring, it takes a little practice to learn how to read this…