The Castafiore Emerald [SEP] series
The Castafiore Emerald
The Castafiore Emerald () is the twenty-first volume of "The Adventures of Tintin", the comics series by Belgian cartoonist Hergé. It was serialised weekly from July 1961 to September 1962 in "Tintin" magazine.
In contrast to the previous Tintin books, Hergé deliberately broke the adventure formula he had created. It is the only book in the Tintin series where the characters remain at home in Marlinspike Hall, Captain Haddock's family estate in Belgium, and do not travel abroad or confront
: The Complete Companion", stated that in "The Castafiore Emerald", Hergé permits Haddock to remain at home in Marlinspike, an ideal that the "increasingly travel weary" character had long cherished, further stating that if Hergé had decided to end the Tintin series, "The Castafiore Emerald" would have been "a suitable final volume". He compared the story to the detective novels by Agatha Christie, in that the narrative was "littered from start to finish with clues, most of which are false",