Spurious Games
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2020
Matador (Verlag)
978-1-83859-352-0 (ISBN)
Matador (Verlag)
978-1-83859-352-0 (ISBN)
A local chess player is discovered dead, his untimely end seeming suspicious. Detectives quickly find themselves as pawns in the game of an arrogant mastermind calling himself ‘The Turk’ who taunts them with chess-related clues and must work against the clock to predict the killer’s next move.
A local chess player is discovered dead, his untimely end seeming suspicious. Detective Inspector John Logos of Cornwall’s St Borstal Constabulary is called in to investigate what turns out to be a serial killer running amok in the sedate contemplative world of Cornish chess. The detectives quickly find themselves as pawns in the game of an arrogant mastermind calling himself ‘The Turk’ who taunts them with chess-related clues. Baffled, they call in Caradoc Pritchard, an eccentric Welsh Professor, serial iconoclast and expert in forensic profiling. Together they must work against the clock to predict the killer’s next move.
As the action comes to a dramatic climax only one player can win, but only if he avoids stalemate.
A literary novel of ideas masquerading as a whodunit, Spurious Games exhibits a consistently droll sense of humour that belies its essential seriousness as an extended riff on authenticity. Despite its roots in chess, there are a number of important ‘side shows’, all treated with equal ironic irreverence.
A local chess player is discovered dead, his untimely end seeming suspicious. Detective Inspector John Logos of Cornwall’s St Borstal Constabulary is called in to investigate what turns out to be a serial killer running amok in the sedate contemplative world of Cornish chess. The detectives quickly find themselves as pawns in the game of an arrogant mastermind calling himself ‘The Turk’ who taunts them with chess-related clues. Baffled, they call in Caradoc Pritchard, an eccentric Welsh Professor, serial iconoclast and expert in forensic profiling. Together they must work against the clock to predict the killer’s next move.
As the action comes to a dramatic climax only one player can win, but only if he avoids stalemate.
A literary novel of ideas masquerading as a whodunit, Spurious Games exhibits a consistently droll sense of humour that belies its essential seriousness as an extended riff on authenticity. Despite its roots in chess, there are a number of important ‘side shows’, all treated with equal ironic irreverence.
David Jenkins’ career has spanned the Open University, Warwick and the South Pacific. The American Evaluation Association awarded him ‘2011 Evaluation of the Year’ for his study of a European youth workers training initiative. An ex-race walker, more sedately he played chess for Fiji in the 1994 Moscow Olympiad.
Erscheinungsdatum | 29.07.2020 |
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Verlagsort | Market Harborough |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
Themenwelt | Literatur ► Krimi / Thriller / Horror |
ISBN-10 | 1-83859-352-7 / 1838593527 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-83859-352-0 / 9781838593520 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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