Sinister Gambits
Subtitle: Chess Stories of Murder and Mystery
Edition: First edition
Publisher: Souvenir Press; Souvenir
Published: September 1992
Place of publication: London, England, UK
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 319
ISBN-13: 9780285630529
Copyright date: 1992
Subjects: Modern fiction; Mystery & Detective - General; Mystery And Suspense Fiction; Fiction - Mystery/ Detective; Fiction
First sentence: Searching for the origins of chess has been described as rather like solving a detective mystery, proceeding from the known to the unknown; generations of writers and players have sought after the elusive beginning of their unique game with the same fervour as have the great fictional sleuths -- Auguste Dupin, Sherlock Holmes, Hercule Poirot -- pursued their criminal adversaries.
Notes: £14.99
Printing statement: "First published 1991 by Souvenir Press Ltd.".
Table of contents: label: Introduction
title: Richard Peyton
pagenum: 7; label: I. GRANDPLAYER’S NIGHTMARES
title: Richard Peyton
pagenum: 11; label: The Dreams of Albert Moreland
title: Fritz Leiber
pagenum: 17; label: The Three Sailors’ Gambit
title: Lord Dunsany
pagenum: 33; label: The Devil that Troubled the Chessboard
title: Gerald Kersh
pagenum: 41; label: Pawn to King’s Four
title: Stephen Leacock
pagenum: 50; label: The Royal Game
title: Stefan Zweig
pagenum: 58; label: End-Game
title: J. G. Ballard
pagenum: 102; label: II. BIZARRE CHESSMEN
title: Richard Peyton
pagenum: 124; label: The Queen of the Red Chessmen
title: Lucretia P. Hale
pagenum: 129; label: The Game of Chess
title: Robert Barr
pagenum: 151; label: A Set of Chessmen
title: Richard Marsh
pagenum: 163; label: The Haunted Chessmen
title: E. R. Punshon
pagenum: 180; label: Bishop’s Gambit
title: August Derleth
pagenum: 193; label: The Immortal Game
title: Poul Anderson
pagenum: 205; label: III. BLOOD CHESS
title: Richard Peyton
pagenum: 217; label: A Chess Problem
title: Agatha Christie
pagenum: 222; label: Checkmate
title: Alfred Noyes
pagenum: 234; label: Professor Pownall’s Oversight
title: H. Russell Wakefield
pagenum: 248; label: The Cat from Siam
title: Fredric Brown
pagenum: 260; label: Fool’s Mate
title: Stanley Ellin
pagenum: 291; label: A Better Chess Player
title: Kenneth Gavrell
pagenum: 306; label: Acknowledgments
title: Richard Peyton
pagenum: 319