The Secrets of the Chess Machine - Couverture souple

Löhr, Robert

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0141026987 ISBN 13 : 9780141026985

Editeur : Penguin, 2008

Synopsis

In Vienna in 1770 Baron Wolfgang von Kempelen unveils his astonishing invention: the Mechanical Turk, an unbeatable chess-playing machine. But von Kempelen is no mechanical genius. Rather, he’s a conman, as Tibor, the dwarf locked inside the device, will attest.

As the pair tour Europe and become involved in a host of picaresque adventures, barely keeping the secret as they beat all comers, they at last come unstuck when a beautiful countess dies in the presence of the Turk.

Suddenly von Kempelen, Tibor and his Turk are the objects of suspicion and the targets of persecution and espionage. And that is before more unexplained deaths further complicate matters …

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Robert Löhr was born in Berlin, and grew up there and in Bremen and Santa Barbara, California. He trained as a journalist at the Berlin School of Journalism, then worked for Sat. 1 news and for the Berlin daily papers Der Tagesspiegel, Berliner Zeitung and Taz. He then trained as a screenwriter at the German Film and Television Academy and after many years writing screenplays and plays, Robert Löhr decided to try his hand at a novel. The Secrets of the Chess Machine is his first.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Penguin
• Date d'édition: 2008
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0141026987
• ISBN 13: 9780141026985
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 352
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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