The Secret Academy

An exciting and gripping quest for the Nazi murder of a philologist. Why was Ernest Tegenbos, emeritus professor of German, arrested and murdered by the Nazis? What fate made him a victim of war? Was he involved in the resistance? Or did he know secrets that could harm the Third Reich? The young historian Peyer Uytendale takes on the assignment to uncover the dark history of this unexplained murder. In doing so, he comes across Tegenbos' surprising theory that the origins of the medieval Nibelungenlied must be situated in the Low Countries, and not in the German territories. Uytendale concludes that this claim proved fatal for Tegenbos. The Secret Academy is both an exciting literary detective story and an intense, magical-realistic love story by the Flemish master storyteller Hubert Lampo.