THE FLANDERS PANEL; Translated from the Spanish by Margaret Jull Costa

New York San Diego London: Harcourt Brace & Company, 1990. First American Edition, 1st Printing. Cloth and boards. Very Fine/Very Fine. Tall 8vo, violet/peuse quarter cloth with gold lettering on spine over lighter peuse boards, archival mylar-protected photographic dust jacket (unclipped) depicting a chess table with pieces, 294, [295] pages. Arturo Pérez-Reverte Gutiérrez (born 1951 in Cartagena) is a Spanish novelist and journalist. He worked as a war correspondent for RTVE for 21 years (1973-1994). His first novel, El húsar, set in the Napoleonic Wars, was released in 1986. He is well known outside Spain for his "Alatriste" series of novels. <br /> <br /> In The Flanders Panel, Julia, an art restorer living in Madrid, discovers a painted-over message on a 1471 Flemish masterpiece called (n English) The Chess Game, with an entry reading (in English): "Who killed the knight?". As a result, she sets forth with César, an antiques dealer and chess master, to solve a 500-year old murder...<br /> <br /> The 1994 British film Uncovered, starring Kate Beckinsale and John Wood, is a cinematic adaptation of the novel.<br /> <br /> EXCEPTIONAL CONDITION! Tight, bright, clean copy in a comparable unclipped dust jacket. No previous owner or remainder marks.