Cryptogram from Frankenstein; or, the modern prometheus, chapter 21
The second of ten cryptograms from chapter 21 of Frankenstein; or, the modern prometheus. Every letter below stands for a different one, the same way all the way through, and no letter ever stands for itself.
Behhujhsctyqdhkmbsddgyygy,zgyqtzByheuhqsgzsdtsshyybauhrgrhzsmbsdgpsfdpkkhybzvtzktvgzj.
- Written byMary Wollstonecraft Shelley
- Taken fromFrankenstein; or, the modern prometheus
- Difficultymedium
- Length84 letters, 20 unique
Where it comes from
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley wrote it in chapter 21 of Frankenstein; or, the modern prometheus. Here is the prose either side of it, with the sentence you are solving left out.
Mr. Kirwin, on hearing this evidence, desired that I should be taken into the room where the body lay for interment, that it might be observed what effect the sight of it would produce upon me. This idea was probably suggested by the extreme agitation I had exhibited when the mode of the murder had been described. I was accordingly conducted, by the magistrate and several other persons, to the inn. I could not help being struck by the strange coincidences that had taken place during this eventful night; but, knowing that I had been conversing with several persons in the island I had inhabited about the time that the body had been found, I was perfectly tranquil as to the consequences of the affair.
The sentence you are solving goes here.
One paragraph next to it is a cryptogram here in its own right, so it is left out too: the easy one from chapter 21.
Text from the Project Gutenberg edition, which is in the public domain in the United States.
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Have a proper go at it first. The solution is on a page of its own, so you won’t run into it by accident.
Nearby in the book
The puzzles either side of this one in the novel.
- Chapter 20medium, 83 letters
- Chapter 21medium, 89 letters
- Chapter 21easy, 100 letters
- Chapter 21hard, 71 letters
About as hard as this one
Scored closest to it by the model behind our guide to solving cryptograms.
- Chapter 18medium, 87 letters
- Chapter 17medium, 72 letters
- Chapter 24medium, 62 letters
- Chapter 8medium, 77 letters
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