The Chessmaster's Secret

The Chessmaster's Secret
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Publisher : Troubador Publishing Ltd
Total Pages : 208
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ISBN-10 : 9781789018264
ISBN-13 : 1789018269
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Book Synopsis The Chessmaster's Secret by : Mary Parker

Download or read book The Chessmaster's Secret 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. 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?


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