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 and her own life is in danger...
- ISBN10 0006548296
- ISBN13 9780006548294
- Publish Date 11 September 1995 (first published 1 June 1994)
- Publish Status Out of Stock
- Out of Print 13 June 1996
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher HarperCollins Publishers
- Imprint Flamingo
- Edition New edition
- Format Paperback
- Pages 304
- Language English
- URL http://harpercollins.co.uk