The Flanders Panel - Couverture rigide

Perez-Reverte, A.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0002712946 ISBN 13 : 9780002712941

Editeur : HarperCollins Publishers Ltd, 1994

Synopsis

In the 15th century a Flemish master introduces a game of chess into a painting, and thereby offers the key to resolving a secret of the era. Five centuries later, a woman art-restorer joins forces with a homosexual antiquarian and a chess-player to pit their wits in an effort to crack the enigma.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

A fifteenth-century painting by a Flemish master is about to be auctioned when Julia, a young art restorer, discovers a peculiar inscription hidden in a corner: Who killed the knight? In the painting, the Duke of Flanders and his knight are locked in a game of chess, and a dark lady lurks mysteriously in the background. Julia is determined to solve the five-hundred-year-old murder, but as she begins to look for clues, several of her friends in the art world are brutally murdered in quick succession. Messages left with the bodies suggest a crucial connection between the chess game in the painting, the knight's murder, the sordid underside of the contemporary art world, and the latest deaths. Just when all of the players in the mystery seem to be pawns themselves, events race toward a shocking conclusion. A thriller like no other, The Flanders Panel presents a tantalizing puzzle for any connoisseur of mystery, chess, art, and history.

Quatrième de couverture

'A sleek and sophisticated mystery about art, life and chess...madly clever' New York Times

The clue to a murder in the art world of contemporary Madrid lies hidden in a medieval painting of a game of chess.

In the fifteenth-century Flemish painting two noblemen are playing chess. Yet two years before he could sit for the portrait, one of them was murdered. Now, in twentieth-century Madrid, Julia, a picture restorer preparing the painting for auction, uncovers an inscription 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.

'Its intellectual background detail is reminiscent of Umberto Eco's novels...hard to stop reading' Times Literary Supplement

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
• Date d'édition: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0002712946
• ISBN 13: 9780002712941
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 384
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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