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The Chessmen of Doom

The Chessmen of Doom
(1989) is the seventh book in the Johnny Dixon series.

Synopsis

Upon Peregrine's death, his brother Professor Roderick Childermass receives this very strange riddle along with the terms of Peregrine's will: The professor must spend the summer on Peregrine's estate or forfeit his huge inheritance, And Peregrine, who dabbled in sorcery, left no doubt that danger lay ahead. But the professor and his young friends Johnny and Fergie, ignoring the risk, journey to the desolate mansion. There they battle a madman who is determined to let nothing -- and no one -- stop him from destroying the world.

Cast

Protagonists

  • Johnny Dixon
  • Byron "Fergie" Ferguson
  • Roderick Childermass
  • Charles Coote
  • Anna Louisa Thripp

Antagonists

  • Edmund Stallybrass

Setting

  • Mid-1950s
  • Duston Heights, Massachusetts
  • Stone Arabia, Maine

Reference