Da Vinci Code has become the best selling novel ever. It is not a history book or the work of a scholar, but an estimated 20 million of the people who read his novel believe everything he says there is true.

In his preface to The book the author, Dan Brown, writes “All descriptions of artwork, architecture, documents, and secret rituals in this novel are accurate”. So the novel is easy to test for accuracy. Duncan Forbes takes those data and contrasts them with the facts. Let's have a close look into the novel and see if it all stands.

An important thing for English learners and teachers is the speaker's accent. That kind of London accent is considered by many scholars to be the future British standard.