| No, I didn't make a typo. That's the name of the book. I laughed my butt off when I read the synopsis on the rear of the book, and I wanted to buy it, but it was kind of expensive and looked short. It's by some bloke called Adam Roberts, who's written "Bored of the Rings" and "The Matrix Derided".
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In his own blood, the dying man had written a single sentence in splashy, red letters. It was very much a red letter statement:
"The Chatholic Curch Had Me Murdered"
For long seconds Donglan stared at the mysterious message.
"That, Doctor Donglan," said Tash, "is why we have called you in at this time. That mysterious message."
"It may," said Robert, "be an anagram."
"We wondered about that," said Tash. "Can you decipher it??"
Donglan smiled. "Of course. It is my speciality," he said. He tried to add "I am an anagram master" but instead said "an amanana manna" and "I am anamanna," and stopped.
Five utterly baffling mysteries that will change what you believe about the world. And fish. And the wisdom of ever reading another book:
An eminent, renowned museum curator lies dead in his own gallery, with a three foot cod stuffed down his throat ...
?A brilliant young man, a renowned anagrammatologist, good-looking, gsoh, own flat, good job, non-smoker, very high standards of personal hygiene, single, he's not gay, and he not antisocial, he meets lots of women really, just nobody seems quite right ...
A beautiful, renowned young French police cryptologist who studied for her cryptology degree at Royal Holloway* - a university without a department in cryptology ...
A book full of rehashed conspiracy theory cods (Oh! My! God!) wallop becomes a global bestseller.
Another book that should be called The Eda Vinci Cod gets called The Va Dinci Cod instead. An anagram is it? Err no.
The true reasons for the success of Don Brine books are a secret that not even the Knights Templar, the CIA or the Church of the Resplendent Latter Day Apostles Who came Down from Space to Smite the Liberals (Alabama) are privy to.
Less-than-interestingly if you transcribe Don Brine into the Cyrillic alphabet and read it in a mirror and then transcribe it back out of the Cyrillic it reads as a transliteration of the Hebrew for Adam Roberts. If you squint a bit.
Adam Roberts, get this, actually does teach at Royal Holloway. But not cryptology. Perhaps not even English. |
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| Something fishy is going on in the world of artistic scholarship. How can there possibly be a link between the hidden cod of Leonardo Da Vinci's paintings and the over fishing of the North Atlantic fish stocks? Could it be that Leonardo Da Vinci, the greatest genius of his age and inventor of the photocopier and mouse mat, had a chilling insight into European Union Fishing policies. Only one man can find out. Robert Hangdog, international scholar, master spy and action hero. Oh and Bezu Fish. |
That first one cracks me up. Anyone who read the Da Vinci code and thought it was ridiculous that they didn't work out the phrases were anagrams sooner would agree, I'm sure. | |
