Silber’s smile vanished. “The PDF contains the minutes of a secret 1945 meeting. It names the Swiss bank accounts that held Nazi loot—and the modern bank that still protects them. My bank. Professor Calculus was just the idiot who could read old German script. He was supposed to decipher the PDF, then have a ‘climbing accident.’ The gnome is a fairy tale.”
Tintin was sorting through his morning mail in his flat at 26 Labrador Road when a plain, brown envelope caught his eye. It had no return address, only a Swiss postmark and the words: URGENT – FOR YOUR EYES ONLY.
“The warning said not to trust you,” Tintin said flatly. “What’s really in that PDF, Herr Silber? Or should I call you by your real name…?” Tintin In Switzerland Pdf
“Professor Calculus! And you brought a friend,” Herr Silber said, his smile as cold as the glacier wind. “The famous Tintin. How… inconvenient.”
Inside was not a letter, but a single sheet of brittle, yellowed paper. It was a page torn from an old book, the text in faded German gothic typeface. At the top of the page was a handwritten note in perfect, if hurried, English: Silber’s smile vanished
P.S. The PDF is now public. Professor Calculus has since tried to build a “gnome-detecting radar.” Tintin is currently hiding the patent.
Chapter 1: The Mysterious Attachment
Tintin’s blood ran cold. He ran a hand over his quiff. “Calculus? In danger?” He grabbed his phone. No answer from Marlinspike Hall. He called Snowy. “Snowy… we’re going to Switzerland.”