The Secrets of the Chess Machine by Robert Lohr
In Vienna 1770, Baron Wolfgang von Kempelen unveils a strange invention, The Mechanical Turk, a chess-playing automaton. The crowds adore the Turk, and the success of Baron von Kempelen seems assured. But, when a beautiful Countess dies under mysterious circumstances in the presence of the automaton, the Turk falls under a cloud of suspicion.
Robert Lohr was born in Berlin, and grew up there and in Bremen and Santa Barbara, California. He trained as a journalist at the Berlin School of Journalism, then worked for Sat. 1 news and for the Berlin daily papers Der Tagesspiegel, Berliner Zeitung and Taz. He then trained as a screenwriter at the German Film and Television Academy and after many years writing screenplays and plays, Robert Lohr decided to try his hand at a novel. The Secrets of the Chess Machine is his first.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780670916351 |
| ISBN 10 | 0670916358 |
| Title | The Secrets of the Chess Machine |
| Author | Robert Lohr |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Year published | 2007-05-31 |
| Number of pages | 352 |
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