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.
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
ISBN: 9780099453956
Number of pages: 304
Weight: 213 g
Dimensions: 198 x 129 x 18 mm
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
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