The Castafiore Emerald

The Castafiore Emerald (French: Les Bijoux de la Castafiore) is the twenty-first of The Adventures of Tintin, the series of comic albums written and illustrated by Belgian artist Hergé, featuring young reporter Tintin as the hero. Conceived by Hergé as a narrative exercise, the cartoonist wanted to see if he could maintain suspense throughout sixty-two pages of story with no villains, locations, guns or danger, and with a clearly deceptive solution. Consequently it is a story rich in comic setpieces, red herrings, mistaken interpretations, false tracks, pseudo-disappearances, and colourful characters.

This is one of the only Tintin books in which the characters remain at Marlinspike and do not venture to another part of the world.