The chessmen of doom

Name: The chessmen of doom
Rating: 4 (3 reviews)
Author: John Bellairs
ISBN: 9780141306971

by John Bellairs

4.0

(3 ratings)

155 pages2000Puffin BooksISBN 9780141306971

Mystery Fiction Children's

About this book

Johnny Dixon, Fergie and Professor Childermass comply with a strange will left by the Professor's brother, which requires them to spend the summer at a desolate estate where they encounter a madman bent on destroying the world.

Publication Details

Publisher: Puffin Books
Published: 2000
Pages: 155
ISBN: 9780141306971
Language: en

About John Bellairs

<a href="http://bellairsia.com">John Bellairs</a> (1938–1991) was an American novelist working primarily in the Gothic genre. He is best-known for the children's classic The House with a Clock in its Walls 1973) and for the pathbreaking fantasy novel The Face in the Frost (1969). Bellairs held a bachelor's degree from Notre Dame University and a master's in English from the University of Chicago. He combined writing and teaching from 1963 to 1971, including a year at <a href="http://shimer.edu">Shimer College</a> that coincided with that school's storied <a href="http://www.bellairsia.com/the_life/il/gis.html">Grotesque Internecine Struggle</a>. After 1971, he took up writing as his full-time work. (from <a href="http://shimercollege.wikia.com/John_Bellairs">Shimer College Wiki</a>)