“There’s not really a version of this that totally makes sense,” Gordon said. Gordon began to entertain conspiracy theories, including about the possible existence of a “person at some warehouse somewhere that’s putting the wrong bar code on everything.”īut what would be a warehouse employee’s motivations for falsifying stock numbers of an obscure, out-of-print dating humour book from 1995? The 2006 reprint amends the cover text to read, “Early Humor from the Author of ‘The Da Vinci Code,’” and recasts the author as “Dan Brown Formerly Writing As Danielle Brown.”ĭata from NPD BookScan, which has tracked book sales data since the early 2000s, shows that the 2006 edition sold about 1,200 copies. The covers are almost identical - a pigeon-toed blond cartoon woman in a cherry red coat and floppy hat clutches herself protectively as she stands before a large assembly of suited men. But both the original 1995 edition and a Berkley Trade reprint published in 2006 are listed in various places online.

Information about the slim, square-shaped book is difficult to come by.