Henry James

87 cryptograms in the catalog, every one taken from Henry James’s own writing rather than from a quotation list.

Where they come from

  • The Turn of the Screw86

86 of these name the book they came from. The remaining 1 are remarks, letters and speeches, which carry no work.

How hard they are

Graded by the model in our guide to solving cryptograms: 29 easy, 35 medium and 23 hard. Most of Henry James’s puzzles land in the medium tier.

They average 70.9 letters over 19.1 distinct ones, with 4.3 letters appearing exactly once, which are the letters a frequency count cannot help you with. 27.6% carry an apostrophe, which hands over a letter outright.

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