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Title: Flanders Panel
Author: Arturo Perez-Reverte
ISBN: 9780553377866
Publisher: Bantam Books
Published: 1996
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Edition: 1st
Condition Note: Clean, unmarked copy with some edge wear. Good binding. Dust jacket included if issued with one. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.
Publisher : Julia is a young art expert in Madrid. Her specialty is the restoration of paintings about to go up for auction. But her latest project could also be her last. A fifteenth-century masterpiece, the painting depicts a chess game between the Duke of Flanders and his knight, as a lady in black velvet sits in the background. What makes this project different is the hidden inscription Julia discovers in the corner: “Quis Necavit Equitem.” Translation: “Who killed the knight?” Breaking the silence of five centuries, Julia’s hunt for a Renaissance murderer leads her into a modern-day game of sin, betrayal, and death–every move calculated with devilish precision. And as the stakes rise, Julia finds herself exposed + and vulnerable to attack from everywhere. Unsure whether she is a player or just a pawn, all she knows for certain is that her passion for art has made her an object of deadly obsession. In a mystery of eloquence, wit, seduction, and suspense which marks the debut of a writer Europeans are already comparing to Umberto Eco, the solution is a tour de force of intrigue.
“Paradoxes and puzzles abound + A sleek, sophisticated, madly clever chamber mystery about chess, life, and art.”– “The New York Times Book Review”
“Entertaining, taut, well-plotted.”– “Elle”
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