The Castafiore Emerald
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The Castafiore Emerald is the twenty-first volume of The Adventures of Tintin, the comics series by Belgian cartoonist Hergé. It was serialised weekly from July 1961 to September 1962 in Tintin magazi
Cover of the English edition
The Château de Cheverny in France was used as the basis for Haddock's family estate, Marlinspike Hall or Moulinsart in the original French version.
Hergé biographer Benoît Peeters (pictured, 2010) described The Castafiore Emerald as "the most surprising of Tintin's adventures".
Marlinspike Hall
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Marlinspike Hall is Captain Haddock's country house and family estate in The Adventures of Tintin, the comics series by Belgian cartoonist Hergé.
The Castafiore Emerald
…previous Tintin books, Hergé deliberately broke the adventure formula he had created: it is the only book in the series where the characters remain at Marlinspike Hall, Captain Haddock's family estate, and neither travel abroad nor confront dangerous criminals. The plot concerns the visit of the opera singer Bianca…
Tintin, Captain Haddock and Snowy approach Marlinspike Hall (Le château de Moulinsart).
The Château de Cheverny was used as a model for Marlinspike Hall. The central tower and two inner wings are identical while the two outermost wings were not used.
Simulation of Marlinspike Hall with the outer wings removed and some features changed