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Cigars of the Pharaoh and Land of Black Gold both have basically the same ending. The following events occur in both of these books at the end: Tintin has managed to arrest all of the criminals in an underground passage below a palace. The leader escapes, and Tintin goes up only to find that the prince has been kidnapped. Tintin borrows a royal car and takes off after the villain(s) who kidnapped the prince. The villain has a car accident, but neither him not the prince are injured. The villain tries to take Tintin's car but is unsuccessful. The villain almost or apparently dies, and Tintin brings the prince back to his father. Isn't this similarity rather odd? what does everyone think of this?

I've never thought of this but once you've pointed it out it's fairly obvious. Interesting observations. As a matter of fact, some of the scenes earlier in the stories also resembles each other, i.e. Tintins encounters with sheikhs (Patrash Pasha in Cigars and Bab El Ehr in Black Gold) and then suffering from thirst when walking around in the desert.

There is one major difference: saving the good little Indian prince is commendable and I'd be all for it. But in the case of Abdallah you could say it was more of a case of saving Muller from him !

Mikael Uhlin
Your oservations are interesting too. let's see if we can think of any other Tintin books that are strangely alike.
mct16
in the case of Abdallah you could say it was more of a case of saving Muller from him !

Great joke!

Mikael Uhlin

red sea sharks and red rackham's treasure also have some similarities.

1) the word 'red' is present in both titles.

2) both books are sea adventures.

3) captain haddock is the captain of the ships in both books and the crew is also limited.

4) in both the books, sharks are killed.

In Congo and "Prisoners of the sun" Tintin hires a native child to act as his guide.