Tonight's fine reading: The Da Vinci Cod by Don Brine

[uppityperson]

I found this at the library today and have laughed more than I have for a while. Don Brine does a very good job at character development and all those borrring minute details, though the ending is rather a wash

Robert Donglan, The Exterminator, Inspector Charlees "Curvy" Tash of the CID and Sophie Nudivue all come together after the murder of Jaques Sauna-Lurker in the National Art Gallery of FIne Paintings in London. How do the cod fit in? Why were there 9 fishes on the table in the last supper? Who is Mona Eda and why the cod should we care?

ISBN: 0060848073
Harper paperback 2005

A Fishy Parody.
"Mutely Tash pointed at the museum wall. 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, Dr. Dongland,' said Tah, 'is why we have called you in at this time. That mysterious message.'

'It may,' said Robert, 'be an anagaram.'
'We wondered about that,' said Tash. 'Can you decipre it?'
Donglan sniled. 'Of course. It is my speciality,' he said. He tried to add 'I am an anagram master', but instead said 'I amanana manna' and 'I am anamanna' and stopped. He smiled at the two policemen. 'Hand on a minut,' he said, 'whilst I work this out.' He pulled out a small notepad from his jacket pocket and exticated a felt-tip pen from the row of wire hoops that held tha pages together. In a minute he had worked through the possibilities and turned to the inspector. 'I thinkg the curator was trying to tell us this.' He held his notebook up. On the leading page he had written:

H! THE 'CCC' COME HARD, HURDLE A COLT

Fishclaimer: This book has not been authoized or endorsed by Dan Brown or his publishers, but it is much, much funnier.

[Dave Reynolds]

1. I may have to check that out.

Just for the halibut.

[uppityperson]

2. Did you do that on porpoise?

[Dave Reynolds]

3. Yes,

but I am a heartless, shellfish bastard.

[uppityperson]

5. Here's a cod to cuddle with, make you all squishy instead

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0060848073.01._BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-dp-500-arrow,TopRight,45,-64_AA240_SH20_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg

[elshiva]

4. ROFL!

Thanks! :rofl:

[uppityperson]

6. You are welcome, glad to be able to provide entertainment.