Thomas Thiemeyer » The World Collector‘s Chronicles - The Glass Curse (Vol. 3) « 12+, June 2011 480 pages, 14.0 x 21.5 cm ISBN 978-3-7855-6577-3 hardcover 17,90 € (D) Rights sold: Russian, Ukrainian

In October 1893 on the summit of the Bandiagara massif in French-Sudan, today known as Mali, the ethnologist Richard Bellheim discovers the desert city of the Tellem, people who came to the mountain from the Sahara and who appeared to have an astonishing comprehensive knowledge of astronomic. In the centre of the city is a temple which is built on top of a mysterious green stone. Bellheim is sure that he has found “The Glass Curse”, a fortunate stone which was brought to the mountain by the people of Tellem and which might have been the reason for their disappearance.
Back in Berlin Bellheim holds a lecture about his experiences and discoveries in Africa. Unfortunately he does not recognize his old friend Carl Friedrich Humboldt. It seems that since he has come back from the mountain he forgets a lot and that apparently he eats glass. During a visit at Humboldt‘s, Oscar and Bellheim get into a fight in which the researcher develops an unsuspected strength. The next moment the bells of the church across the street begin to ring and suddenly Bellheim crumbles into sand.
Bellheim‘s wife kindly asks Humboldt to find out what has happened to her husband back in Africa. And so Humboldt, Oscar, Charlotte and Eliza set out to their next big adventure to unsolved the secret of the Tellems and their glass curse. Soon they find out that the stone is a meteorite which carries some kind of a virus and transforms everything into dust. Humboldt and his team try to stop the power of the stone, but they are not the only ones who are searching for it.

After his studies in art and geology Thomas Thiemeyer worked as an illustrator of children‘s a...