Allmen and the Pink Diamond

March 1, 2019

After the sparkly Allmen and the Dragonflies, destitute if aristocratic Johann Friedrich von Allmen returns with Guatemalan butler Carlos, having founded Allmen International Inquiries to pursue work as a private investigator. Here, he's been asked by an Englishman to find the Pink Diamond, a precious jewel stolen from a man who really doesn't have a claim on it. The suspect is a Russian Allmen tracks from an apartment building to a rental agency to a villa to a stunning Baltic coast resort, where sophisticated sybarite Allmen of course gets the best of everything and charges it to his client. But the Russian is being tracked by others, the Pink Diamond turns out not to be as expected, and Allmen and faithful Carlos enter the slippery realm of high finance. VERDICT Immense fun for lovers of international mystery.

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