2. This was a clue that the conspirators were using a specific, yet-unknown book to encrypt their messages and that the book had two columns of type, like a dictionary. The numbers likely pointed to words at certain locations in this mysterious book. For instance, in a sequence like 97-2-14, 97 meant the page number, 2 meant the right-hand column, and 14 meant the fourteenth word in the column. Applying similar logic to the third set of numbers in the detective’s
