Hergé
Les aventures de Tintin: Les cigares du pharaon
Casterman, 1955 (colour edition)
(Originally published in black and white in Le Petit Vingtième between 1932 and 1934, under the title Les Aventures de Tintin en Orient; first published as an album in 1934, with its current title, by Casterman; reworked and redrawn in 1955 for the colour version.)
I wanted to get involved in mystery, detective novels, suspense… and I got myself so tangled up in my puzzles that I almost never got out of them.
Hergé, in Tintin et moi – entretiens avec Hergé, by Numa Sadoul (Casterman, 1975)