Sunday, January 22, 2012

11. The Secret of the Unicorn (1942–1943)


The Secret of the Unicorn is the first part of one of the four multi-book stories in the Tintin series, the story continuing in Red Rackham's Treasure 
The Secret of the Unicorn is the eleventh in the series of The Adventures of Tintin.
There is an amazing epidemic of wallet-snatchings around a town in Belgium (visibly Brussels, if we are to judge by the drawings of the Old Street market). Thomson and Thompson - who, during the course of the story, eventually lose their wallets by the dozens to the thief - look for the culprit at the Old Street Market where they meet Tintin. Tintin buys a boat model of an old ship for Captain Haddock, but, as he does, two men try to haggle it off him. The first is a Mr. Ivan Ivonovitch Sakharine, the second is later revealed to be Barnaby. Sakharine calls up later, seeking to convince Tintin -unsuccessfully- to sell his ship, but leaves his card. A little while later, the mainmast is broken by Snowy, and Tintin repairs it.



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