La tabla de Flandes (1990) is a Spanish crime novel
by best-selling author Arturo Pérez-Reverte. (Exists
in English: The Flanders Panel, and in many other languages.)
The plot revolves around an ancient painting featuring two historical
celebrities playing a chess game. Today the painting is kept in contemporary
Madrid, where murders begin to occur when it is understood that a retrograde
analysis of the position on the depicted chess board gives clues about
ancient (and recent) crimes.
