The Riddle of the Labyrinth

This is the true story of one of the most mesmerizing riddles in history—the quest to decipher Linear B—and of the three brilliant, obsessed, and ultimately doomed investigators whose combined work would crack the code. There was Evans, who discovered the script but could never unravel it; the fiery American scholar Alice Kober, whose work made the decipherment possible but who was denied the recognition she deserved; and the haunted English architect Michael Ventris, who would solve the riddle triumphantly at 30 only to die four years later under swift, strange circumstances that may have been a result of the decipherment itself.