02485cam a2200385 i 4500 662334290 TxGeo 20230203120000.0 220709s2023||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2022018517 9781668003220 hbk. 1668003228 hbk. (OCoLC)1330894768 TxGeo rda Hallett, Janice, author. The Twyford code : a novel / Janice Hallett. First Atria Books hardcover edition. New York, NY : Atria Books, 2023. 326 pages ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "Forty years ago, Steven Smith found a copy of a famous children's book by disgraced author Edith Twyford, its margins full of strange markings and annotations. Severely dyslexic and wanting to know more, he took it to his remedial English teacher Miss Iles, not realising the chain of events that he was setting in motion. Miss Iles became convinced that the book was the key to solving a puzzle, and that a message in secret code ran through all Twyford's novels. Then Miss Iles disappeared on a class field trip, and Steven has no memory of what happened to her. Now, out of prison after a long stretch, Steven decides to investigate the mystery that has haunted him for decades. Was Miss Iles murdered? Was she deluded? Or was she right about the code? And is it still in use today? Desperate to recover his memories and find out what really happened to Miss Iles, Steven revisits the people and places of his childhood. And as he does so, he records the story of his life in the form of voicemails and voice memos for his estranged and long unknown son, a professor of mathematics. But it soon becomes clear that Edith Twyford wasn't just a writer of forgotten children's stories. The Twyford Code is valuable, and he isn't the only one trying to solve it."-- Provided by publisher. 20230228. Women authors Fiction. Children's literature, English Fiction. English teachers Fiction. Missing persons Fiction. Secrecy Fiction. Code and cipher stories. Thrillers (Fiction.) Detective and mystery fiction. Psychological fiction. QS5