The Flanders Panel
Arturo Peréz-Reverte
  • Published: 2 June 2003
  • ISBN: 9780099453956
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 304
  • RRP: $29.99

The Flanders Panel

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A brilliant murder mystery in which a clue to a murder is hidden within a medieval painting.

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.
  • Published: 2 June 2003
  • ISBN: 9780099453956
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 304
  • RRP: $29.99
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About the author

Arturo Peréz-Reverte

Arturo Peréz-Reverte was born in Cartagena in 1951. Since the publication of The Fencing Master, his first novel, Pérez-Reverte has become one of Europe's bestselling authors. The Flanders Panel was awarded the Grand Prix Annuel de Litterature Policiere in France. His novel The Dumas Club has been made into the film The Ninth Gate by Roman Polanski, starring Johnny Depp.

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Praise for The Flanders Panel

A sleek and sophisticated chamber mystery about art, life and chess. Madly clever

New York Times

Gives murder a touch of class...delightfully absorbing

Observer

In its intellectual background detail it is reminiscent of Umberto Eco's novels...hard to stop reading

Michael Eaude, Times Literary Supplement