Length12h 23m
About this audiobook
Some secrets survive for centuries. Some are designed to.
In 1912, a mysterious manuscript was presented to the scholarly world. Its strange script baffled experts, inspired theories and resisted every attempt to reveal its meaning.
A century later, the questions remain. But new evidence begins to emerge: forgotten records, secret investigations, twelve mysterious leaves and a man who may have spent his life constructing an elaborate deception.
As researcher Marcus Lau follows the trail across archives, continents and generations, the pieces begin to form a pattern. Yet the deeper he digs, the less certain he becomes of what is true. The man at the centre of the mystery warned that he was not a reliable narrator. The documents may not be reliable either.
What if the greatest trick was never hiding the truth—but making the world look directly at it without ever seeing it?
The past has left a record. Now someone must learn how to read it.
Audiobook details
GenreHistorical Fiction, Mystery and Thriller
Length12 hrs 23 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateOct 13, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1a reckoning
21Ethel: London
2Ivory F. Wild
22Denton
3Melbourne
23Richard
4Nowacki
24The Stairs
5Morozov
25Alcott
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6Brauer
26The Whiteboard
7The Bank Hotel
27The Fragment
8Probert
28Ethel: The Years
9Kip
29Two in the Morning
10Finch
30Arnaud
11Ethel: Charlotte
31Kessler
12Fleischer
32The Long Middle
13Katerina
33The Pen
14The Rope
34Mara
15Wainwright-Hughes
35The Sunday
16The Spaniard
36Epilogue
17Castel Gandolfo
37Author’s Note
18The Bodleian
38ALSO IN THIS SERIES
19Ferrer
39AND SOME OF OUR OTHER TITLES
20Duchamp
40check out our website
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