Sunday, March 29, 2009

Definitely Got Something To Do With Chess But Probably Rubbish



"Checkmate!" That was the last word uttered to Charlie Chan and Prefect of Police Claude DeBevre by a dying reporter. The man had been murdered ... stabbed to death and left to die in a vacant hotel room. It is the second murder in 24 hours at the Transcontinental Chess Tournament, and Charlie Chan has been summoned from a peaceful and long-deserved vacation to help solve the crime before international scandal ruins the tournament's good name!

Or so it says here.

5 comments:

ejh said...

What's the point of "writing as" somebody else and then giving your real name?

Tom Chivers said...

Is it a series, the original author now dead?!

ejh said...

If* I die, will you all start writing "as ejh"?


[* i.e. if soon, not if ever]

Tom Chivers said...

Your writing is inimitable!

Jonathan B said...

The author Luther Blisset is not actually, much to my disappointment, the former Watford 'striker'. He's actually two people (iirc) writing as one.

I agree - it does seem a bit odd to put it on the cover though.