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Kathrin Twohatchet Desember 02, 2021

The Castafiore Emerald is the story aboutBianca Castafiore's prizedEmerald going missing while she pays a surprise visit toMarlinspike Hall.

Contents

  • 1 Plot
  • 2 Appearances
    • 2.1 Characters
    • 2.2 Locations
  • 3 Trivia

Plot

Tintin and Captain Haddock are walking through the countryside of Marlinshire when they come across a Romani community camped in a garbage dump, and reunite a lost little girl named Miarka with her family there. The Romani explain that they are not allowed to camp anywhere else so Haddock invites them to the grounds of his estate, Marlinspike Hall.

Haddock has been trying to get the local stonemason Arthur Bolt to fix a broken step at Marlinspike, but he always conjures excuse after excuse to avoid the job. (The broken step is subsequently used as a running gag throughout the entire story, with most of the characters tripping over it at some point, with the exception of Castafiore herself and the professor, Calculus).

Milanese opera diva Bianca Castafiore invites herself to Marlinspike Hall. Haddock, who dislikes her company, tries to leave before she arrives but trips on the broken step and sprains his ankle. The doctor puts his foot in a cast and imposes compulsory bed rest. Castafiore then arrives with her maid, Irma, and pianist, Igor Wagner. Castafiore presents Haddock with a pet parrot and fusses over him, to his great discomfort.

The magazineParis Flash claim that Haddock and Castafiore are engaged, on the basis of a misinterpreted interview with Professor Calculus, who suffers from hearing problems. This results in an avalanche of congratulations from Haddock's friends. A television crew come to Marlinspike Hall to interview Castafiore and a mysterious photographer, Gino, appears with the crew. Suddenly, Irma informs Castafiore that her jewels are missing, and Castafiore assumes they are stolen. Tintin suspects Gino, who runs away during a temporary power cut. Castafiore, however, finds the jewel-case she herself had misplaced, which does not amuse Thomson and Thompson, who had arrived to investigate. The next day, Castafiore shows Tintin and Haddock a copy of the magazineTempo di Roma with a picture of Castafiore taken at Marlinspike Hall without her permission, proving that Gino was only a paparazzo.

A few days later, Castafiore's most valuable jewel, an emerald given to her by the fictional Maharajah of Gopal, goes missing. After initially interrogating Irma, Nestor and Calculus, the detectives suspect the Romani. Their suspicions are heightened when they find that a pair of golden scissors belonging to Irma in Miarka's possession, though she claims to have found them. After the Romani depart, the police start looking for them. Tintin also investigates Igor Wagner, whose behaviour he finds suspicious, but finds out that the musician is simply sneaking out to indulge in a horse-gambling habit.

Castafiore leaves for Milan to perform in the operaLa gazza ladra (Italian:The Thieving Magpie). Tintin realises that the true culprit responsible for the theft of the emerald and the scissors is a magpie. He explains to Haddock that the scissors must have fallen out of the nest only to be found by Miarka. Tintin retrieves the emerald and hands it to Thomson and Thompson, who return it to Castafiore. Sometime later, Bolt mends the broken step, only for Haddock to inadvertently step on it and slip again while the cement is still wet.

The Castafiore Emerald

The TV interview crew inside Marlinspike Hall.

Appearances

Characters

  • Tintin
  • Snowy
  • Captain Haddock
  • Cuthbert Calculus
  • Thompson and Thomson
  • Bianca Castafiore
  • Irma
  • Igor Wagner
  • Jolyon Wagg
  • Nestor
  • Mike
  • Miarka
  • Christopher Willoughby-Drupe
  • Marco Rizotto
  • Mr. Bolt
  • Mrs. Bolt
  • Iago
  • Andy
  • Cutts the Butcher
  • Chang Chong-Chen (mentioned)
  • Captain Chester (mentioned)
  • Lord Chamberlain (mentioned)
  • Colonel Sponsz (mentioned)
  • Marquis di Gorgonzola (mentioned)
  • Doctor Patella (mentioned)
  • Oliveira de Figueira (mentioned)
  • Max Bird (mentioned)
  • Gustav Bird (mentioned)
  • Kurvi-Tasch (mentioned)

Locations

  • Marlinspike
    • Marlinspike Hall

Trivia

  • One of the few comics where Tintin, Haddock and Calculus do not travel.
  • One of the few comics to also depict a swear word, "damn", which is used when the blackout occurs.
  • Almost everybody slips and falls from the broken tile.

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