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The one where Calculus is kidnapped The Calculus Affair comes in the wake of Hergé's greatest achievements in the Tintin series which peaked with the double-length works, Destination Moon / Explorers on the Moon , The Seven Crystal Balls / Prisoners of the Sun and The Secret of the Unicorn / Red Rackham's Treasure . The qualities that are evident in those books are all here in The Calculus Affair , the story packed with amusing incidents and adventure, strong characterisation, entertaining secondary characters and superlative clear-line artwork that is not only well designed and laid-out, but expressive and dynamic. There's only one area in which The Calculus Affair is lacking from the double-features, and it might well have something to do with length; there's just not much room left for a decent plot. Essentially, although there is a little bit of a mystery at the start of the book with glass, crystal and ceramic objects shattering in Haddock's Marlinspike mans...