The Chessmaster's Secret
Download or Read eBook The Chessmaster's Secret PDF written by Mary Parker and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2019-05-21 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
| Author | : Mary Parker |
| Publisher | : Troubador Publishing Ltd |
| Total Pages | : 208 |
| Release | : 2019-05-21 |
| ISBN-10 | : 9781789018264 |
| ISBN-13 | : 1789018269 |
| Rating | : 4/5 (64 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis The Chessmaster's Secret by : Mary Parker
Book excerpt: In London in 1944, war orphans, Belle and Joe, discover a link between their Uncle’s ‘Shop of Mechanical Marvels’ and The Turkish Chessmaster, a chess-playing automaton, which leads them into a time-travelling adventure with ‘The Turk’s’ inventor Baron Von Kempelen. Helping the Baron they find themselves in a risky confrontation with the Russian Army; a narrow escape at the court of Maria Theresa and a game of chess with Napoleon. Despite their adventures, Belle and Joe long for a permanent home. Determined to solve the mystery of ‘The Turk’, they are inevitably led to the Museum in Philadelphia in 1844, where the Chessmaster has been revealed as merely a conjuring trick. Or has it?
