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About Robert Lohr

The Secrets of the Chess Machine

» Robert Lohr

Fig Tree
ePub eBook : 07 Feb 2008

£6.49

Synopsis

In Vienna in 1770 Baron Wolfgang von Kempelen unveils his astonishing invention: the Mechanical Turk, an unbeatable chess-playing machine. But von Kempelen is no mechanical genius. Rather, he’s a conman, as Tibor, the dwarf locked inside the device, will attest. As the pair tour Europe and become involved in a host of picaresque adventures, barely keeping the secret as they beat all comers, they at last come unstuck when a beautiful countess dies in the presence of the Turk. Suddenly von Kempelen, Tibor and his Turk are the objects of suspicion and the targets of persecution and espionage. And that is before more unexplained deaths further complicate matters …

Product details

Format : ePub eBook
ISBN: 9780141919553
Published : 07 Feb 2008
Publisher : Fig Tree

The Secrets of the Chess Machine

» Robert Lohr

£6.49


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