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The Flanders Panel

byArturo Pérez-Reverte

Who is this book for? Readers who enjoy art, mystery, and crime fiction.

Topics ArtMysteryIdentity
MoodSuspenseful
Female protagonist
ViolenceModerate
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.

Language

en

Published on

06/05/1997

Pages

295

Format

Paperback

ISBN

9780099453956

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