Chess Mysteries Of Sherlock Holmes

Author : Raymond M. Smullyan
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486482014
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Chess Mysteries of Sherlock Holmes written by Raymond M. Smullyan and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Join Holmes and Watson as they examine interrupted games to deduce prior moves. A series of increasingly complex chess mysteries culminates in a double murder perpetrated by Professor Moriarty. The master sleuth instructs his companion (and us) in the intricacies of retrograde analysis; readers need only a knowledge of how the pieces move.

Author : Raymond M. Smullyan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780091405311
Total Pages : 171 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Chess Mysteries of Sherlock Holmes written by Raymond M. Smullyan and published by . This book was released on 1980-01 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Arturo Pérez-Reverte
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 0547539584
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Flanders Panel written by Arturo Pérez-Reverte and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2004-06-07 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A sleek, sophisticated, madly clever chamber mystery” from the international bestselling author—the basis for the film Uncovered starring Kate Beckinsale (The New York Times Book Review). A fifteenth-century painting by a Flemish master is about to be auctioned when Julia, a young art restorer, discovers a peculiar inscription hidden in a corner: Who killed the knight? In the painting, the Duke of Flanders and his knight are locked in a game of chess, and a dark lady lurks mysteriously in the background. Julia is determined to solve the five-hundred-year-old murder, but as she begins to look for clues, several of her friends in the art world are brutally murdered in quick succession. Messages left with the bodies suggest a crucial connection between the chess game in the painting, the knight’s murder, the sordid underside of the contemporary art world, and the latest deaths. Just when all of the players in the mystery seem to be pawns themselves, events race toward a shocking conclusion. A thriller like no other, The Flanders Panel presents a tantalizing puzzle for any connoisseur of mystery, chess, art, and history. “A beguiling puzzle—a game within a game within a game—solved in perplexing but entertaining fashion.”—The Philadelphia Inquirer “For mystery fans who yearn for literate, intelligent, sophisticated whodunits, Spanish author Pérez-Reverte’s highly acclaimed story fills the bill perfectly . . . An inventive plot, gripping suspense, fascinatingly complex characters, and innovative incorporation of art, literature, and music will enthrall readers looking for something a little different.”—Booklist “This intelligent mystery . . . comes up with a satisfying twist at the end.”—Library Journal

Author : Len Bailey
Publisher : Thomas Nelson
ISBN 13 : 0849965055
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sherlock Holmes and the Needle's Eye written by Len Bailey and published by Thomas Nelson. This book was released on 2013-05-06 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Embark on a journey through the Old and New Testament with Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John Watson as they explore exotic and spice-laden places in search of clues. The detective and the doctor travel back in time with the help of a Moriarty-designed time machine to investigate ten Bible destinations, unlocking clues to ten Bible mysteries. The most fascinating crime cases are those that are already solved, those that have been investigated by the police and brought to a swift, satisfying, and almost inevitable conclusion. So it is with Bible stories which the reader may consider familiar and unremarkable. But under close scrutiny these stories give up their hidden clues, their long kept secrets. Like a jewel newly polished, they sparkle and shine with a fresh, introspective light. While traveling back in time to witness certain scenes, Holmes and Watson unravel ten different Biblical mysteries, including the following: · The Hanging Tree: Why did Ahithophel hang himself? · Righteous Blood is Red: Is Zechariah the son of Berekiah or Jehoiada in Matthew 23? · You Miss, You Die: Why did David take five stones against Goliath? · Dead Man Walking: Why did Jesus delay in coming to Lazarus in John 11?

Author : Packages
Publisher : Packages
ISBN 13 : 9780785818809
Total Pages : 548 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book New Sherlock Holmes Adventures written by Packages and published by Packages. This book was released on 2000-05-24 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After Arthur Conan Doyle created the detective, Sherlock Holmes, many writers borrowed him to be the hero of their stories. The anthology offers a selection, old and new.

Author : Raymond M. Smullyan
Publisher : Random House Puzzles & Games
ISBN 13 : 9780812923896
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Chess Mysteries of Sherlock Holmes written by Raymond M. Smullyan and published by Random House Puzzles & Games. This book was released on 1994 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here -- from philosopher/logician/puzzlemaker Raymond Smullyan -- are fifty elegant, witty, and altogether unique "chess mysteries." In each problem the solver has to deduce certain events in a game's past. For example: On what square was the White queen captured? or, Is the White queen promoted or original? Since these problems involve the same sort of logical reasoning that lies at the core of the Sherlock Holmes stories, Raymond Smullyan has aptly set each one within its own Holmes-Watson dialogue. In each case Holmes, by his remarkable powers of deduction, is able to demonstrate to his awed admirers precisely what must have happened, move by move, at the "scene of the crime" -- the chess table. For example: what the missing piece is; what square it should be on; whether or not either side can castle. In the second half, through a series of progressively more difficult (self-contained) chess problems, Holmes, with the reader's help, solves a mystery and a double murder -- perpetrated, of course, by Moriarty. And at the end of the book are ten bonus problems from Moriarty himself (four of them composed before the age of nine!). Chess Mysteries of Sherlock Holmes is Smullyan's challenging and witty romp through the royal game.

Author : Colleen Gleason
Publisher : AVID PRESS
ISBN 13 : 1944665838
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Chess Queen Enigma written by Colleen Gleason and published by AVID PRESS. This book was released on 2022-04-28 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Evaline Stoker and Mina Holmes never meant to get into the family business. But when you're the sister of Bram and the niece of Sherlock, vampire hunting and mystery solving are in your blood, so to speak.... In this third installment of the Stoker and Holmes series, Evaline Stoker and Mina Holmes have reluctantly agreed to act as social chaperones and undercover bodyguards for Princess Lurelia of Betrovia, who has arrived in London to deliver a letter that details the secret location of an ancient chess queen that's been missing for centuries. But when the letter—which will heal a centuries-old rift between England and the Betrovians—is stolen out from under Evaline and Mina's watchful eyes, the two girls are forced into a high-stakes race to ensure they find the chess queen before anyone else does.

Author : Irene Adler
Publisher : Capstone
ISBN 13 : 1623704723
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Mystery of the Scarlet Rose written by Irene Adler and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2015-03-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sherlock Holmes, Arsene Lupin, and Irene Adler meet up in London only to find a strange chess problem in the Times signed by "The Black Friar." It's written in an unknown code which Sherlock is eager to solve. The next day, the city is rocked by the news of a rich merchant found murdered. On the merchant's desk was scarlet rose: the same flower used as the calling card for a brazen criminal group that haunted the streets of London twenty years ago. Could the Scarlet Rose Gang be back? Find out in this ebook from the Sherlock, Lupin and Me series.

Author : Richard T. Ryan
Publisher : Andrews UK Limited
ISBN 13 : 1780929900
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Vatican Cameos: A Sherlock Holmes Adventure written by Richard T. Ryan and published by Andrews UK Limited. This book was released on 2016-08-24 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the papal apartments are burgled in 1901, Sherlock Holmes is summoned to Rome by Pope Leo XII. After learning from the pontiff that several priceless cameos that could prove compromising to the church, and perhaps determine the future of the newly unified Italy, have been stolen, Holmes is asked to recover them. In a parallel story, Michelangelo, the toast of Rome in 1501 after the unveiling of his Pieta, is commissioned by Pope Alexander VI, the last of the Borgia pontiffs, with creating the cameos that will bedevil Holmes and the papacy four centuries later. For fans of Conan Doyle’s immortal detective, the game is always afoot. However, the great detective has never encountered an adversary quite like the one with whom he crosses swords in “The Vatican Cameos.”.

Author : Arthur Conan Doyle
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
ISBN 13 : 1667602039
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes (Illustrated Edition) written by Arthur Conan Doyle and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2023-01-07 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The final book of Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories presents 12 more classic cases, including "The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire," "The Adventure of the Illustrious Client," and "The Problem of Thor Bridge."