The Falcon's Malteser

By: Anthony Horowitz

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A lot of people have read the Falcon’s Malteser by Anthony Horowitz . This book is the first in the series which is called the Diakmond Brothers Mysteries. The main character is a boy named Nick Diamond he’s thirteen years old and he lives with his brother Tim Diamond who‘s running a private detective buisness.

This book is all about their first clien who is a dwarf named Johnny Naples. Johhny Naples gave them a package to guard, and will return to pay them. Unfortunately he was murdered by the Fat Man’s assistant. The Fat Man is London’s most dangerous crook. The Diamond brothers later discover that the package Johnny Naples had sent is a box of candy, but this box of candy is no ordinary box of candy, the Diamond brothers later discover that the barcode on the box of candy is a key to the safe where the most dangeours and richest man in Europe stores his diamonds which were hidden in his grave. His name is Henry von Falkenberg, but he is called The Falcon. His memorial had a special device to scan only one barcode which was the barcode on the box of candy. This device opens a vault stored in his grave where all his diamonds are located. When Nick scanned the barcode under the device in his grave, the container was empty and there were no diamonds.

Later Nick got a letter from a person he met in a bar when the Diamond brothers with were looking for clues. Her name was Lauren Bacardi. There was a small package under the letter, it was a diamond which was the size of a peanut. Then Nick suddenly realized that when Nick told her about the barcode she made a photocopy of the barcode on the box of candy when Nick wasn’t looking. Later she then scanned it under the device in the falcon’s grave so she was the one who took all the diamonds worth of five million dollars