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    Spurious Games

    By David Jenkins

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    When a local chess player is discovered dead, Detective Inspector John Logos of Cornwall’s St Borstal Constabulary is called in to investigate what turns out to be a serial killer running amok in the sedate world of Cornish chess. The detectives quickly find themselves as pawns in the game of an arrogant mastermind calling himself ‘The Turk’ who taunts them with chess-related clues. Baffled, they call in Caradoc Pritchard, an eccentric Welsh Professor, and together they must work against the clock to predict the killer’s next move.
    A literary novel of ideas masquerading as a whodunit, Spurious Games exhibits a consistently droll sense of humour that belies its essential seriousness as an extended riff on authenticity. Despite its roots in chess, there are a number of important ‘side shows’, all treated with equal ironic irreverence.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTroubador Publishing Ltd
    Release dateJul 28, 2020
    ISBN9781838598259
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    David Jenkins

    Senior Researcher. Practitioner and author and Emeritus Professor in Pathology, University of Nottingham, UK

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