The Chessmaster's Secret
No. of pages 184
Published: 2019
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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?
This book has been graded for interest at 7-11 years.
There are 184 pages in this book. This book was published 2019 by Troubador Publishing .
Mary Parker has worked in schools with children who struggled to read, and instilled in them a love of stories. She later taught at The Institute of Education. Her doctoral thesis explored children developing Sense of Time. She lives in East Grinstead, Sussex.