The Flanders Panel
- ISBN-10
- 0099453959
- ISBN-13
- 9780099453956
- Category
- Chess problems
- Pages
- 304
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2003
- Publisher
- Random House
- Author
- Arturo P'Rez-Reverte
Description
"The clue to a murder in the art world of contemporary Madrid lies hidden in a medieval painting of a game of chess. In a 15th-century Flemish painting two noblemen are pictured playing chess. Yet two years before he could sit for the portrait, one of them was murdered. In 20th-century Madrid, Julia, a picture restorer preparing the painting for auction, uncovers a hidden inscription in Latin that points to the crime- Quis necavit equitem? Who killed the knight? But as she teams up with a brilliant chess theoretician to retrace the moves, she discovers the deadly game is not yet over."
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