"Name the book written in 1982 by Michael Baigent, Richard Leigh and Henry Lincoln that according to its authors in a court case inspired Dan Brown to write ""The Da Vinci Code""?"
Dan Brown God" (2000). Judge George Daniels said, in part: "A reasonable average lay observer would not conclude that "The Da Vinci Code" is substantially similar to "Daughter of God"." In April 2006 Brown's publisher, Random House, won a copyright infringement case brought by authors Michael Baigent and Richard Leigh, who claimed that Brown stole ideas from their 1982 book "Holy Blood Holy Grail" for his 2003 novel "The Da Vinci Code". It was in the book "Holy Blood Holy Grail" that Baigent, Leigh, and co-author Henry Lincoln had advanced the theory that Jesus and Mary Magdalene married and had a child
Rennes-le-Château Mary Magdalene and that Pierre Plantard was a modern-day descendant; Bérenger Saunière allegedly discovered that secret and amasses his wealth by blackmailing of the Holy See. The blood-line hypotheses of Lincoln, Baigent and Leigh were later picked up in 2003 by Dan Brown's bestselling novel "The Da Vinci Code". Brown's novel never specifically mentioned Rennes-le-Château, but some key characters in the book had related names, such as Saunière, named after the priest, and "Leigh Teabing", whose name was derived from Richard Leigh and Michael Baigent. The two authors brought (and lost) a plagiarism suit against Brown in 2006. The extraordinary