Who Wrote Shakespeare?

My father, Louis, was fascinated by codes, ciphers and the stories behind the machines which created and broke them. In the 1970s he, Ci Devours, and David Kahn (of The Codebreakers fame) started a magazine called Cryptologia. They sold the magazine to Taylor & Francis publishing a few years before dad passed. Even after the sale, dad continued to produce articles, book reviews, and other content, as we see from the search result on the T&F site.

One of dad's pieces was about a team of researchers in 1916 who, funded by an eccentric millionaire, found evidence that Francis Bacon had hidden clues in the First Folio that he was the true author of Shakespeare's works. Just as a book was about to be published, they were sued by a film producer, who claimed their book would hurt the business of the four based on four of Shakespeare's plays, about to be released. He sued. The trial, held in a Chicago court, lasted ten days. 

The finding for Francis Bacon was news around the world, none of it flattering. The mocking from the press was so bad a committee of judges met and vacated the ruling. That the trial was nothing more than a publicity stunt cooked up by the millionaire and the movie mogul is only one part of the story.... because two of the teams members would go on to become the most prolific husband and wife team in the history of cryptology, breaking the codes of rumrunners and the Japanese military just before Pearl Harbor.