The Castafiore Emerald

: Tintin © Hergé/Moulinsart.

Original French title

Les Bijoux de la Castafiore

Publication history

First published in Tintin between 4/7 1961 to 4/9 1962.

Published in book form in 1963.

UK edition translated by Leslie Lonsdale-Cooper and Michale Turner.

First published in Britain in 1963 by Methuen, in collaboration with Casterman.

Plot

When the old gypsy fortune-teller reads Captain Haddock's palm, she foresees trouble at Marlinspike Hall. Indeed, Tintin, Snowy and the Captain are scarcely home again before misfortune strikes. An accident, an unexpected visitor, an invasion by press and television, and then a robbery. Bianca Castafiore's emerald disappears. All of Tintin's skills are needed to reveal the identify of a strange and ingenious thief. [AR]

Trivia

The reporters Christopher Willoughby-Drupe and Marco Rizotto, can also be found on page 61 of The Black Island and on page 5 (frame 8) of Tintin and the Picaros [IM, G]
Typo - page 19, last frame: "exercise" is misspelt as "excercise" - the typo has been found in 1984 Magnet edition and the 1999 Mammoth edition books. [SC]
Page 24, frame 8: Castafiore does not need to remove the wasp sting because wasps do not leave their sting behind. [EC]
Page 41, frame 6 and page 44, frame 3: the number of steps on the stairs changes from 14 steps on page 41, to 16, on page 44. [EC]
Page 58, frame 11: in the French edition, there is confusion between les Dupondt: "Pour nous, l'acclaire est faire, n'est-ce pas Dupont?" says Dupont. [EC]
Page 17, frame 1: 8 steps shown on mainstairs, but 9 steps shown in other frames; for example, page17, frame 12; and page 29, frame 12. (Seven steps shown in The Calculus Affair, page 3, frame 1. [LS]
Marlinspike Hall's front door lock and knockers first appear in this album. [LS]
The ceiling is light green on page 57, frame 4; but it is white on page 58, frame 4. [LS]
Bianca Castafiore's bracelet shifts from one wrist to another: compare magazine cover (page 41, frame 8) with other frames (e.g., page 34, frame 3; page 35, frame 14). [LS]
Page 39, frame 9: Tintin's right eyebrow is missing. [LS]
Page 42, frame 8: Bottom part of Castafiore's neck is yellow. [LS]
The handle of the battery tape recorder changes from white to brown (page 53, frame 4). [LS]
Page 54, frame 6: Washtub is missing a handle. [LS]
Page 54, frame 2: the metal bands on the lid of the trunk (in which Tintin and Snowy hide) are not shown; however, they are shown in other frames (e.g. page 53, last frame). [LS]
Page 15, frame 7: the right front leg of the desk is in the wrong shape and wrongly placed.

Title in other languages

Aclot - Les Berlokes del Castafiore
Alsatian - De Castafiore ihre schmuck
Arabic - Tantan mujawharat Biyanka Kastafiyur
Basque - Castafioreren bitxiak
Bengali - Pana Kothai
Breton - Bravigou ar Castafiorenn
Brussels regional dialect - De bijous van de Castafiore
Catalan - Les joies de la Castafiore
Chinese - China: 绿宝石失窃案 (Lü baoshi shiqie an) / Hong Kong and Taiwan: 綠寶石失竊案 (Lü baoshi shiqie an)
Corsican - Ghjuvelli di a Castafiore
Danish - Det gådefulde juveltyveri
Dutch - De juwelen van Bianca Castafiore
Farsi/Persian - Javahirati Castafiore
Finnish - Castafioren korut
Galician - As xoias de Castafiore
German - Die Juwelen der Sängerin
Greek - Ta Kosmimata tis Kastafiore (To Smaragdi tis Kastafiore)
Hebrew - Ha'yahalom Shel Kastafyore
Icelandic - Vandræði Vailu Veinlólínu
Indonesian - Zamrud Castafiore [Indira edition] / Permata Castafiore [Gramedia edition]
Italian - I gioielli della Castafiore
Japanese - カスタフィオーレ夫人の宝石 Katasufiore hujin no Hoseki / Castafiore fujin no houseki
Lëtzburgesch - Der Castafiore's hir bijouen
Picard - Les Pinderleots de l'castafiore
Portuguese - As joias de Castafiore
Serbo-Croatian - Smaragd gospodje Kastafjore
Spanish - Las joyas de la Castafiore
Swedish - Castafiores juveler
Turkish - Kastafiore'nin Mücevherler
Twents (a Dutch dialect) - 't Smokweark van Bianca Castafiore
Vietnamese - Viên ngoc bích Castafiore

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Originally created by Jesper Jühne. Revised and maintained by Irene Mar
Contributors and sources: Srinjay Chakravarti, Etienne Chevalier, Graeme, Emil Örn Kristjánsson, Chikahiro Masami, Kirill Polsatchev, Aaron Remick, Levent Suberk, Rohit, Syaiful Bahri, BP = Tintin and the world of Hergé by Benoît Peeters. London: Methuen, 1989.