(20-09-2023, 08:36 PM)Mark Knowles wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.I am curious as to why you have chosen to classify the Voynich as a "20th Century Mystery".
Many thanks for your message. My first book in this series was D. B. Cooper and Flight 305 (Schiffer, 2021), wherein the mystery dates from 1971, when a nondescript man hijacked an airliner and escaped by parachute, never to be identified. The third is Mallory, Irvine, Everest: The Last Step But One (Pen and Sword, 2024); here the mystery dates from 1924 when George Mallory and Andrew Irvine disappeared on Mount Everest.
In the case of the Voynich manuscript, it seems to me that the mystery dates either from 1912 (when, as per Voynich's narrative, he rediscovered the manuscript), or from 1921 when Voynich presented his narrative in Philadelphia.