The Seventh Hypothesis

The Seventh Hypothesis
Author	Paul Halter
Original title	La Septième Hypothèse
Genre	Mystery
Publication date	1991

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

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.

In 2014, The Guardian's Adrian McKinty considered The Seventh Hypothesis the third best locked-room mystery.

References

↑ 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. hdl:10446/34331. ISSN 2033-7019.
↑ McKinty, Adrian (29 January 2014). "The top 10 locked-room mysteries". The Guardian. Retrieved 12 March 2024.

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[1] 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. hdl:10446/34331. ISSN 2033-7019.

[grauniad-2] McKinty, Adrian (29 January 2014). "The top 10 locked-room mysteries". The Guardian. Retrieved 12 March 2024.