Walking through the flea market, Tintin sees a model of an old sailboat and decides to give it to his friend Captain Haddock. The captain is delighted, because it is an exact copy of the "Unicorn" - the ship commanded by his glorious ancestor Francois de Addock. At the end of the 17th century, pirates led by the Red Rakkam captured the ship, but Captain de Addock blew it up so that the proud frigate of His Majesty King Louis XIV would not go to filibusters. The ship sank in a quiet bay near a nameless island, and with it all the treasures that the pirates managed to drag from their wrecked sloop. The Chevalier de Addock himself escaped and he bequeathed to his sons three miniature copies of the Unicorn with a secret. This secret is trying to unravel Tintin. But as it turns out, he's not alone...
The comic "The Secret of the Unicorn" was created in 1943. This is the second adventure of Tintin, after Pharaoh's Cigars and The Blue Lotus, to be published in two volumes. Having unraveled the secret of the "Unicorn" in the first part of the dilogy, Tintin and Captain Haddock go in search of pirate valuables in the second part: "The Treasure of the Red Rakkam." This two-volume set has identical green spines so that you can immediately find both books on the shelf.
Author: Erzhe
Translation: Mikhail Khachaturov
Pages: 64 (offset). Hard cover
Dimensions: 217x290 mm
