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The Adventures of Tintin Volume 3 is a graphic novel collecting Hergé’s The Broken Ear, The Black Island and King Ottokar’s Sceptre. Summary of the Book The Broken Ear When a fetish created by the Arumbaya tribe of South America is stolen from the Museum of Ethnography at Brussels, only to be returned the next day, Tintin is sent to investigate the mystery. The replacement is clearly a fake. A local sculptor has been murdered and the murder looks like it has a connection to the theft. The only witness to the murder is the sculptor’s parrot, and it is currently in the hands of two men who are out to kill anyone who is looking into the crime. Can Tintin retrieve the original fetish? The Black Lotus When Tintin finds a wayward plane stranded in the Belgian countryside, he offers to help the pilot. However, the pilot doesn’t want help and he shoots Tintin, who wakes up later in a hospital with Thomson and Thompson by his side. They tell him that the plane flew to Sussex after the pilot shot him, and crashed there. Tintin gets on the case and discovers that there is a lot more to this mystery than meets the eye. King Ottokar’s Sceptre When Tintin finds a briefcase in a Belgian park, he finds its owner and returns it to him. The owner is none other than the sigillographer Professor Hector Alembick who tells Tintin that he plans to travel to Syldavia, the Balkan nation. However, Tintin discovers that there are mysterious agents watching the professor and he follows them to a nearby Syldavian restaurant. A man who agrees to rendezvous with Tintin is found unconscious and soon the young reporter discovers that something big is about to happen and the professor might be at the very epicentre of it. About Hergé Georges Prosper Remi, better known as Hergé, was a Belgian cartoonist best known for creating the characters in the Tintin comics series. He completed 23 books in the series and is best remembered for Tintin in Tibet and Prisoners of the Sun. After working for a brief stint at various newspapers, he started serialization of the Tintin stories in 1929. He is considered to have greatly influenced the world of comics, majorly European comics, and was included in the Harvey Award Jack Kirby Hall of Fame and the Eisner Award Hall of Fame as the Judge's choice. The Tintin series has since been adapted into two TV series, one radio series and five full-length movies, including a 2001 hit movie directed by Steven Spielberg. Series Reading Order Tintin fans, this volume follows volume 2 which collects Tintin in America, The Cigars of the Pharaoh and The Blue Lotus. Be sure to catch Volume 4 next, which collects The Crab with the Golden Claws, The Shooting Star and The Secret of the Unicorn.