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The Da Vinci code : a novel

Author: Dan Brown
Publisher: New York : Anchor Books, 2006, ©2003.
Edition/Format: Book : Fiction : English : 1st Anchor Books trade pbk. edView all editions and formats
Summary:

While in Paris on business, Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon receives an urgent late-night phone call: the elderly curator of the Louvre has been murdered inside the museum. Near the body, police have found a baffling cipher. While working to solve the enigmatic riddle, Langdon is stunned to discover it leads to a trail of clues hidden in the works of Da Vinci--clues visible for all to see--yet ingeniously disguise Read more...

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Genre/Form: Mystery fiction.
Named Person: Leonardo, da Vinci
Material Type: Fiction
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Dan Brown
ISBN: 0307277674 9780307277671
OCLC Number: 65285960
Notes: Originally published in hardcover in the United States by Doubleday, a division of Random House, Inc. New York, in 2003.
Description: 454 p. ; 20 cm.
Responsibility: Dan Brown.

Abstract:

While in Paris on business, Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon receives an urgent late-night phone call: the elderly curator of the Louvre has been murdered inside the museum. Near the body, police have found a baffling cipher. While working to solve the enigmatic riddle, Langdon is stunned to discover it leads to a trail of clues hidden in the works of Da Vinci--clues visible for all to see--yet ingeniously disguised by the painter. Langdon joins forces with a gifted French cryptologist, Sophie Neveu, and learns the late curator was involved in the Priory of Sion--an actual secret society whose members included Sir Isaac Newton, Botticelli, Victor Hugo, and Da Vinci, among others. In a breathless race through Paris, London, and beyond, Langdon and Neveu match wits with a faceless power broker who seems to anticipate their every move. Unless Langdon and Neveu can decipher the labyrinthine puzzle in time, the Priory's ancient secret--and an explosive historical truth--will be lost forever.

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