 Cover illustration by Bob Pepper for the first edition of Deryni Checkmate | |
| Author | Katherine Kurtz |
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| Cover artist | Bob Pepper |
| Language | English |
| Series | The Chronicles of the Deryni |
| Genre | Fantasy |
| Publisher | Ballantine Books (first edition), Ace Books (revised edition) |
Publication date | 1972 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | Print (Paperback & Hardcover) |
| Pages | xiii, 302 pp (first edition), 336pp (Revised hardcover edition) |
| ISBN | 0-345-02598-9 (first edition), ISBN 0-441-01341-4 (revised hardcover edition) |
| OCLC | 20741741 |
| Preceded by | Deryni Rising |
| Followed by | High Deryni |
Deryni Checkmate is a fantasy novel by American-born author Katherine Kurtz. It was first published by Ballantine Books as the forty-sixth volume of the Ballantine Adult Fantasy series in May 1972, and has been reprinted a number of times since. The author released a revised and updated edition of the novel that was published by Ace Books in 2005. Deryni Checkmate was the second of Kurtz' Deryni novels to be published, and also the second book in the Chronicles of the Deryni Trilogy.