Click: Mystery of missing Da Vinci sequel

HE WROTE The Da Vinci Code, which became one of the bestselling books in history. For an encore, Dan Brown is serving up another literary mystery, though not the one his fans had hoped for – what on earth has happened to his next book?

Almost five years have passed since Brown’s epic account of Vatican skulduggery and long-hidden secrets stormed to the top of bestseller lists around the globe, earning its author an estimated £125m.

Word of a sequel began to emerge in 2004, when Brown’s US publisher hinted that a new book would appear the following year. Brown has since revealed that he is working on a story about the influence of freemasonry in Washington DC in the mid-19th century.