The Flanders Panel
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| Rating | : | 4.87 (910 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0156029588 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 294 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-06-22 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Just when all of the players in the mystery seem to be pawns themselves, events race toward a shocking conclusion. 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. A thriller like no other, The Flanders Panel presents a tantalizing puzzle for any connoisseur of mystery, chess, art, and history.. 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. 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
Very Good Story for the First 90% of the Book Being an advid chess player in my youth, I was very much looking forward to reading this book. I was sucked in by the part that the chess game was to play in this book.This is a book that tells the story of a painting - The Game of Chess. It is a painting that depicts three people with two playing the game. In the game, a white knight has been taken. One of the players if also a knight. So when Julia finds, in the painting itself, the question "Who Killed the knight?" or "Who Captured the Knight?", Julia seeks to solve that mystery. As she does so, two people get killed. This is. Martin Mulcahey said Better then Club Dumas. While Perez Reverte gets the most credit for The Club Dumas, I found this book more enjoyable. Greatly researched, expertly translated, and gave me a whole new respect and insight for the game of chess. Of course a strong woman is the central character again, and casting (sorry for the movie reference :-) a homosexual in a lead role took some guts IMO and definitely added to the book. The only drawback to the book for me was that it all took part in one city, I would have liked a side trip to some destination. But it might have broken up the flow I suppose. As an aside for anyon. "Riveting" according to Amazon Customer. Even though the book centered around chess, a game I do not play, it was an entertaining and mesmerizing read.
. Julia, a young Madrid art restorer, is pulled into a shadowy world of metaphor when she discovers a long-covered inscription on a Flemish painting: Who killed the knight? Art, chess and murder are intertwined in this elegant, seductive mystery in the manner of The Name of the Rose