Will Da Vinci crack the blockbuster code? Its literary predecessors may offer some logical clues.
162
Number of weeks The Da Vinci Code has spent on the New York Times best-seller list
12
Publishers who rejected John Grisham's first novel, Time to Kill
0
Novels Harper Lee published after To Kill a Mockingbird
78
Percentage of the 1911 Les Misérables budget that went to Victor Hugo's estate
$3 million
The miserable opening-weekend gross for 1990's Bonfire of the Vanities
