Le Secret de la Licorne

This was the one Tintin book that I owned as a kid, and it ended on a cliffhanger! The book is brilliant, the best of them up to this point, and I had to wait years until I found a copy of Red Rackham's Treasure.

I'm on a re-read of all the Tintin books, and this is where al the characters are fully formed. The Thomsons finding all of their wallets under “T” remains a favorite moment, as are the failed attempts of Nestor (who we'll see more off in later books) to serve the Captain a drink.