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The Seventh Hypothesis

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The Seventh Hypothesis
AuthorPaul Halter
Original titleLa Septième Hypothèse
GenreMystery
Publication date
1991

The Seventh Hypothesis (French: La Septième Hypothèse) is a 1991 book by Paul Halter.

In 2014, The Guardian's Adrian McKinty considered The Seventh Hypothesis the third best locked-room mystery.[1] One plot point turns on the revelation that a Mechanical Turk chess automaton was operated by a person inside the machine, reflecting a recurring theme in Halter's books that technology might allow seemingly-supernatural events to be real.[2]

References

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  1. ^ McKinty, Adrian (29 January 2014). "The top 10 locked-room mysteries". The Guardian. Retrieved 12 March 2024.
  2. ^ Gardini, Michela (15 June 2015). "Figures du surnaturel dans le roman policier : l'exemple de Paul Halter". Revue critique de fixxion française contemporaine (in French) (10). doi:10.4000/fixxion.10169. ISSN 2033-7019.