Cryptology

Woods a codebreaker

4 May 2012

Two spies in separate prison cells are somehow communicating to each other through the walls. A hidden microphone picks up tapping sounds one night. Can someone listen to the taps and decipher the code — which obviously wasn’t done by Samuel Morse — and find out what the prisoners are up to?

'Even a struggle for Houdini'

28 Apr 2012

A naked British spy is found dead in a locked bag. But an inquest into his death raises more questions than answers.

Spy in bag case: 'Someone else involved'

28 Apr 2012

Experts say it was almost impossible for a British spy whose naked body was found locked inside a sports bag to have climbed inside and pulled the zipper closed himself - increasing the likelihood someone else was involved in his mysterious death.