19. The Red Sea Sharks (1958)
The Red Sea Sharks is the
nineteenth of The Adventures of Tintin. Its original French title is
Coke en stock ("coke in stock") referring to a slang term for African
slaves.
The
Red Sea Sharks is the first Tintin adventure to bring together a large
number of previously seen characters: General Alcazar (The Broken Ear)
the characters from Khemed (Land of Black Gold), Rastapopoulos (Cigars
of the Pharaoh), Dawson (The Blue Lotus), Allan (The Crab with the
Golden Claws), and Dr. J.W. Müller (The Black Island).
The
Red Sea Sharks is an adventure in which Tintin finds who is behind
Sheikh Bab El Ehr's overthrow of Mohammed Ben Kalish Ezab, the emir of
Khemed.
After watching a
movie, Tintin and Captain Haddock round a corner and bump into General
Alcazar, who drops his wallet. Tintin attempts to return it, but the
hotel he claimed to be staying at never heard of him, and when Tintin
calls a phone number found in his wallet, the man refuses to talk to
him. When Tintin and Haddock return home, they discover that the Emir's
bratty, impossibly spoiled son Abdullah has been sent there for
safekeeping, along with a colorful entourage of servants and dignitaries
who have just set up a bedouin-bivouac in the great hall of Marlinspike
Hall.
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