The Book Of God And Physics: A Novel of the Voynich Mystery

Original Title: The Book Of God And Physics: A Novel of the Voynich Mystery
Author: Enrique Joven
Publisher: William Morrow, May 5, 2009 (hardcover)
Considered the world's most mysterious manuscript, the Voynich Manuscript, named after its discoverer, is the subject of at least three novels published early in the first decade of the 21st century. The manuscript is preserved in  Yale University's Beinecke Library.

The Lost Symbol

Original Novel Title: The Lost Symbol
Author: Dan Brown
Publisher: New York: Doubleday, September 15, 2009

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Given that Brown returns to familiar ground with his heroic professor Robert Langdon from Angels and Demons and The Da Vinci Code, I think it's safe to assume that this novel will contain references to museums and archives.

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The Frankenstein Diaries

Original Novel Title: The Frankenstein Diaries

Author: Rev. Hubert Venables, trans. and ed.

Publisher: New York: Viking Press, 1980

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A brilliant and faux presentation of a "tattered bundle of ancient, decaying papers" the translator and editor received from a Swiss colleague in 1970. In his foreword, the English Rev. Venables states "My subsequent researches in the archives in Germany and Switzerland have obliged me to revise my opinion, in that I have established beyond all personal doubt the authenticity of the diaries as a true historical record of fact." Of course the fact that Mary Shelley's novel Frankenstein is a complete fiction means that these alleged authentic diaries of Viktor Frankenstein must therefore also be fictitious. Conveniently, the editor, who translated the diaries from German, died in 1980.

Other similar works to this one include The Secret Laboratory Journals of Dr. Victor Frankenstein by Jeremy Kay (1996) and the Diary of Victor Frankenstein by illustrator Timothy Basil Ering (1997).

The Atlantis Prophecy

Original Novel Title: The Atlantis Prophecy

Author: Thomas Greanias

Publisher: New York: Pocket Star Books, 2008

Contains references to an archives.

Act of God

Original Novel Title: Act of God: A Novel

Author: Charles Templeton
Publisher: Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1977.

The Lost Van Gogh

Original Novel Title: The Lost Van Gogh

Author: A.J. Zerries

Publisher: New York: Tom Doherty Associates, 2006 (hardcover); New York: Tor Books, April 2007 (paperback)

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A long missing Vincent van Gogh painting arrives at the Metropolitan Museum of Art by courier from Argentia and thereby hangs this suspense thriller.

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Leonardo's Swans: A Novel

Original Novel Title: Leonardo's Swans: A Novel
Author: Karen Essex
Publisher: New York: Doubleday, January 2006 (hardcover); Anchor, January 2007 (paperback)

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This work depicts the time the artist-inventor Leonardo da Vinci spent under the patronage of the Duke of Milan, Italy.