The Falcon's Malteser
by Anthony Horowitzliterary work· published 1986
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The Diamond Brothers is a series of humorous children's detective books by Anthony Horowitz. the stories feature an incompetent private detective, Tim Diamond, and his more intelligent younger brother, Nick Diamond. The series currently comprises four full-length novels, four novellas and one short story. A fifth full-length novel entitled The Radius of the Lost Shark is being planned. The books are aimed at a younger readership than Horowitz's young adult novels, such as the Alex Rider series and The Power of Five series. The entire series was re-issued in 2007 with new cover art designed by illustrator Martin Chatterton, and again in 2015 illustrated by Tony Ross.
Adaptations (1)
The Falcon's Malteser was adapted into a 1988 film.
Just Ask for Diamond1988 · film · 83 min · dir. Stephen Bayly · IMDb ↗IMDb6.1Thirteen-year-old Nick and his slightly dense older brother Herbert run the Diamond Private Detective Agency above Camden Town Tube Station in north-central London. When a master criminal called The Falcon dies, they come into possession of his box of chocolate Maltesers, which contains the secret key to a fabulous cache of diamonds. Can they unravel the mystery and avoid the clutches of seedy lowlifes Brenda Von Falkenberg, Gott and Himmell, The Fat Man and the dogmatic Chief Inspector Snape, all of whom want to find the swag first.
