The Diamond Brothers · Book 1
The Falcon's Malteser
- Published
- 1 January 1986
- Pages
- 160
- ISBN-13
- 9781417619856
- Type
- novel
About this book
The Falcon's Malteser is the book that opens Anthony Horowitz's The Diamond Brothers series, published in 1986 at 160 pages. It's the natural place to begin the 8-book series, and is followed here by Public Enemy Number Two.
Its place in The Diamond Brothers
The Falcon's Malteser is book 1 in the The Diamond Brothers series. It is followed by Public Enemy Number Two. See the full The Diamond Brothers reading order.
Tim Diamond is London's worst private detective -- broke, hopeless, and permanently one step behind every case he takes. Luckily his much smarter kid brother Nick narrates the investigations and quietly does the actual detective work, dragging Tim through blackmail plots, kidnappings, and murder cases that are always several sizes too big for him. Anthony Horowitz wrote these before Alex Rider made him famous, and they read like it: gleefully silly hard-boiled parody, stuffed with puns, absurd villains, and plots…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781417619856