The Riddle of the Labyrinth: The Quest to Crack an Ancient Code is a 2013 nonfiction book by Margalit Fox, about the process of deciphering the Linear B script, and particularly the contributions of classicist Alice Kober.

[4] The Riddle of the Labyrinth recounts the history of Linear B, from its 1900 discovery in the Minoan ruins of Crete through its ultimate decipherment in the early 1950s, and describes the work of three people who attempted to solve the puzzle.

She learned Akkadian, Basque, Chinese, Hittite, Persian, and other languages to aid her efforts at decipherment, and assembled a system of over 180,000 index cards describing words and other elements of the script.

Hoping to learn more about Ventris, an amateur linguist who was historically given near-total credit for the decipherment, Fox contacted the head of the Program in Aegean Scripts and Prehistory at the University of Texas.

[11] In his New York Times review, Matti Friedman called The Riddle of the Labyrinth a "gripping and tightly focused scholarly mystery", and wrote that "Fox makes the complexities of linguistic scholarship accessible".

[7] Author Patrick Skene Catling wrote that Fox presented the subject with "stylish clarity", and "has been able to portray this unglamorous, reticent academic in all her warm humanity and to give credit to the substantial foundation of scholarly work she left to posterity.