Martin writes “The popular and controversial thriller The Da Vinci Code has spawned a number of notable knockoffs. The author of this article offers short summaries of some that are currently available in bookstores. They include The Pollack Puzzle, The Rembrandt Riddle and (my favorite, because it involves a librarian) The Van Gogh Gagh.
“Colette, a bookish but quietly alluring assistant librarian at the public library in Amsterdam, discovers a series of mysterious letters in the pages of an ancient, dusty joke book that could undermine one of the core myths of 19th-century art. She finds what appear to be a series of letters from the famed Post-Impressionist Vincent Van Gogh to his brother, Theo, that reveal a disturbing secret: The most archetypal troubled artist of the 19th century — the man who established the template for all subsequent tortured, misunderstood, creative souls — was actually a proto-postmodern performance artist and part-time children’s-party clown, who went by the stage name ‘Carrothead.’”
chronicle.com Has The Article (sub req’d)”
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