Half way into this book I was almost ready to give it up. I couldn't put it down, and finished it in about a day. As the book’s advertising claims, The Flanders Panel is truly a “mystery for the connoisseur.” The writing is sophisticated and elegant, the plot twists and turns, and the story shifts easily back and forth among many attractive (and yet somehow sinister) settings – auction houses and museums, antique shops and chess clubs, nightclubs and the streets of Madrid. Buy The Flanders Panel First Edition by Perez-Reverte, A. The Flanders panel by Arturo Pérez-Reverte, unknown edition, Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 12, 2017. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 24, 2019. So Julia starts trying to solve the mystery of a murder that took place centuries ago. EurLex-2. The book's main theme is a painting by Peter van Huys. Real Pieter Van Huys lived 100 years later and his style was com. A thriller like no other, The Flanders Panel presents a tantalizing puzzle for any connoisseur of mystery, chess, art, and history. It also involves a lot of chess. Know the rules of Chess but want to take your game to the next level? Includes initial monthly payment and selected options. Account & Lists Account Returns & Orders. THE FLANDERS PANEL. I didn't want any more people exposed to this crap. WorldCat Home About WorldCat Help. The Flanders Panel. Messages left with the bodies suggest a crucial connection between the chess game in the painting, the knight's murder, the sordid underside of the contemporary art world, and the latest deaths. Here is a wholly original novel to chal It is all of these. In a 15th-century Flemish painting two noblemen are pictured playing chess. The Flanders Panel Book descriptions A fifteenth-century painting by a Flemish master is about to be auctioned when Julia, a young art restorer, discovers a peculiar inscription hidden … Real Pieter Van Huys lived 100 years later and his style was completely different (more like Hieronymus Bosch). EMBED. So here I am again, getting back to normality and warming up. p. cm. Example sentences with "The Flanders Panel", translation memory. However, it has allowed me to get to the end of “The Flanders Panel”, by Arturo Pérez-Reverte. Read honest and unbiased product reviews from our users. has been added to your Cart. A thriller like no other, The Flanders Panel presents a tantalizing puzzle for any connoisseur of mystery, chess, art, and history. I really enjoyed this to start, but by the end I was disappointed. Julia, a painting restorer whose surname the author never gives us, has discovered by X … A fifteenth-century painting by a Flemish master is about to be auctioned when Julia, a young art restorer, discovers a peculiar inscription hidden in a corner: Who killed the knight? It would have had a lot more interesting characters and none of them would be such implausible things as the characters of this novel. by Mariner Books. The Flanders Panel. Publisher: Vintage Books, 1997. Visit Interest Manager. Just when all of the players in the mystery seem to be pawns themselves, events race toward a shocking conclusion. I note that Wilkie Collins'. by Arturo Perez-Reverte. I never felt that tug pulling me to the book and forcing me to continue reading. Sure, there are plenty of literary allusions (we are beaten over the head with the on, This book, my second from the author, contains all the ingredients that should make it an engrossing read: art, medieval history, and mystery. "A sleek, sophisticated, madly clever chamber mystery" from the international bestselling author—the basis for the film Uncovered starring Kate Beckinsale ( The New York Times Book Review ). (Prices may vary for AK and HI.). A thriller like no other, The Flanders Panel presents a tantalizing puzzle for any connoisseur of mystery, chess, art, and history. EMBED (for wordpress.com hosted blogs and archive.org item tags) Want more? I also recoil at burning or throwing away this books, but I threw this one away. Buy The Flanders Panel by Perez-Reverte, Arturo, Costa, Margaret Jull online on Amazon.ae at best prices. No_Favorite. What didn't bother me at the beginning did in the end as it was kind of unfinished due to lack of character involvement/development which left it all hanging a bit and so unsatisfactory. Julia is restoring paintings and a painting representing a chess game between the Duke of Flanders and his knight is her current task. HarperCollins is proud to be an Accessible Publisher. It takes a broken cop to catch broken criminals. flag. The title The Flanders Panel makes expect a plot surrounding a picture, and in fact, the novel told from the perspective of an unconcerned, third-person narrator opens with the revelation of a mystery about the people in a fifteenth-century painting. You'd enjoy it even more if you're a chess player - Flanders' moves are tantalising! And sometimes, his references are neatly hidden. However the description of life within the small suburb of a Spanish town is very well told and provokes vivid imagery of the scenario as the book unfolds the theme. He worked as a war reporter for twenty-one years (1973 - 1994). I wish I had taken the Manhattan phone book instead. Find helpful customer reviews and review ratings for The Flanders Panel at Amazon.com. I don't play chess, but I still found it thoroughly enigmatic and engaging. 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