# The Cryptogram

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- Book: [The Cryptogram](https://www.bookquiver.com/david-mamet/the-cryptogram) ([The Cryptogram.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/david-mamet/the-cryptogram.md))
- Authors: [David Mamet](https://www.bookquiver.com/david-mamet)
- Publisher: Vintage
- ISBN: 978-06-7974-653-9
- Pages: 112
- Published: 1995-04-18
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

In this gripping short play, David Mamet combines mercurial intelligence with genuinely Hitchcockian menace. The Cryptogram is a journey back into childhood and the moment of its vanishing—the moment...