# The Flanders Panel

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- Book: [The Flanders Panel](https://www.bookquiver.com/arturo-perez-reverte/the-flanders-panel) ([The Flanders Panel.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/arturo-perez-reverte/the-flanders-panel.md))
- Authors: [Arturo Pérez-Reverte](https://www.bookquiver.com/arturo-perez-reverte)
- Publisher: Vintage
- ISBN: 978-00-9945-395-6
- Pages: 304
- Published: 2011-06-02
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

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.