The Flanders Panel

by Arturo Pérez-Reverte, Margaret Jull Costa (Translator)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780547539584
Publisher:	Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Publication date:	06/07/2004
Sold by:	Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format:	eBook
Pages:	304
Sales rank:	2,000
File size:	5 MB

About the Author

ARTURO PEREZ-REVERTE is the author of many critically acclaimed novels, including The Club Dumas, The Flanders Panel, and the Captain Alatriste series. A retired war journalist, he lives in Madrid and is a member of the Royal Spanish Academy.

MARGARET JULL COSTA has established herself as the premier translator of Portuguese literature into English today.

Table of Contents

I	The Secrets of Meister Van Huys	1
II	Lucinda, Octavio, Scaramouche	31
III	A Chess Problem	49
IV	The Third Player	68
V	The Mystery of the Black Lady	87
VI	Of Chessboards and Mirrors	103
VII	Who Killed the Knight?	126
VIII	The Fourth Player	136
IX	The Moat at the East Gate	152
X	The Blue Car	177
XI	Analytical Approaches	196
XII	Queen, Knight, Bishop	214
XIII	The Seventh Seal	237
XIV	Drawing-room Conversation	248
XV	Queen Ending	266

Editorial Reviews

Perez-Reverte is a master storyteller. His characters become so lifelike that they feel like old friends.

San Francisco Examiner

A sleek and sophisticated chamber mystery...madly clever.

NY Times Book Review

PRAISE FORTHE FLANDERS PANEL
“Paradoxes and puzzles abound.A sleek, sophisticated, madly clever chamber mystery about chess, life, and art.”—THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW

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