About this item
According to legend, the Red Ruby is cursed! And as luck would have it, it's Mortensen's job to deliver the stolen gem to its rightful place in history. But he's not the only one with plans for the blood-red bauble. A gun moll, a fortune teller, an aristocrat, a gangster, and two henchmen are hot on his trail! With help from his new friend, an absentminded librarian named Kate, Mortensen tracks down the Red Ruby in the last place he wanted to find it . . . onboard the Titanic! Will the ruby's curse take Mortensen with it to the bottom of the sea?
About the Author
Lars Jakobsen is also a documentary filmmaker, illustrator and graphic designer, and owner of publishing house Fabelbooks.He has worked with a variety of graphic forms of expression, including fashion illustrations, advertisements, movies, cartoons, books and comics.He is best known for the book series Mortensen's Escapades, which has been released in the United States, Australia and England, as well as the Netherlands and Belgium, Iceland and Germany in 2019. KIRKUS REVIEWBad guys are traveling back in time, and it's up to a fixer named Mortensen to repair the damage.In this kickoff episode, a picture of an airplane in an old manuscript sends secret agent Mortensen to 16th-century Loch Ness. He goes twice, once to see the evidence (including the plane's large cargo of stolen books from many eras) destroyed, and then a second time to rescue the mute, comely, hatchet-wielding young "witch" Blossom who had helped keep him from being burned at the stake. Looking particularly dapper in a duster and long scarf over formal evening wear, the imperturbable hero surmounts one crisis after another. Though the plot is as airy and light on internal logic as can be, readers will be carried along by both his élan and by the charged-up pace of his misadventures. Jakobsen's cartoon panels are small but discrete, and he keeps the dialogue pithy, his figures clearly drawn and the action easy to follow.A bonbon for Tintin fans. (historical afterwords on manuscript illumination, witch hunts and other related topics) (Graphic science fiction. 10-12)
