Sure, I love a good breadcrumb trail—authors sometimes sprinkle hidden messages, but most of the time it’s just a clever narrative trick. I’ve found that the real treasure is the unexpected twist that keeps you turning pages, not a clandestine code in the margins. And if you’re looking for an actual cipher, you might try the old Acrostic of the Seven Deadly Sins in that obscure 19th‑century novella I once shelved out of habit.