1. Siddharth G. Desai
Roll no. 07
E-C-401: New literatures
M. A. Sem-IV
Year-2011-12
Department of English
Bhavnagar University

2. Mystery Novel is…
Story of murder, theft, kidnapping
Also considered as a Detective fiction or Crime
fiction
The Protagonist solves the riddle or the murder
history

3. Mysterious elements in The Da Vinci Code
The Holy Grail Search as a Riddle
Pentacle painting with the numbers in Fibonacci sequence
Robert Langdon as a Puzzle Solver
Secret messages like,
“P. S. Find Robert Langdon”,
“Leonardo Da Vinci!”,
“The Mona Lisa!”
“Apple”,
“Sophie”
Numbers as a key to open the vault

4. Thank you…
Submitted to Department of English