Indiana Jones and the Mystery of Mount Sinai is the second young adult novel in the Untold Adventures series published by Scholastic Inc in the United States of America, and by Harper Collins in the United Kingdom, after the release of Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. It was released on May 1, 2009.
Publisher's summary[]
After finding a long-lost inscription in a Mayan pyramid, Indiana Jones is hot on the trail of the world's most dangerous weapon — something so important it could decide the fate of World War II. Not surprisingly, a horde of Nazis are after the very same thing!
The chase will take Indy from the Yucatán jungles to Rome, Italy; all the way to Egypt, where the heart of the mystery lies. But to discover the fantastic secret, Indy will have to survive battles with one of the most lethal enemies he's ever met!
Appearances[]
Characters[]
- Mrs. Blumenthal (Mentioned only)
- Bert Brodowski
- Marcus Brody (Mentioned only)
- Reginald Brooksbank (Mentioned only)
- Michelangelo Buonarroti (Mentioned only)
- Toma Dzhmiliv
- Erik Jan Eckart
- Sallah Mohammed Faisel el-Kahir (Mentioned only)
- Abdulmutalib bin Ghalib-Roca
- Giovanni
- Rudolfo Grazieni
- Heinrich Himmler (Mentioned only)
- Adolf Hitler (On telephone)
- Imam
- Isabella
- Henry Jones, Sr.
- Indiana Jones
- T. E. Lawrence (Mentioned only)
- Huey McDonald
- Helmut von Mephisto
- Rafaelo Mercati
- Musgrove
- Benito Mussolini
- Nichols (Mentioned only)
- Harold Oxley (Mentioned only)
- Peku
- Pablo Picasso (Mentioned only)
- Pius XII
- Marion Ravenwood (Mentioned only)
- Norman Rockwell (Mentioned only)
- Baroness de Schlembraign
- Helen Margaret Seymour (Mentioned only)
Locations[]
- Castle Wewelsburg (Mentioned only)
- Egypt
- Mount Sinai
- Temple of Hathor
- Port Said
- Mount Sinai
- Italy
- Mexico
- Itzamal
- Ukraine (Mentioned only)
- United States of America
- Vatican City
Miscellanea[]
- The National Geographic Magazine (Mentioned only)
Behind the scenes[]
Development[]
Indiana Jones and the Mystery of Mount Sinai was J. W. Rinzler's first fiction job and was a lot more fun as well as a lot more work than Rinzler thought it would initially be. Greg Knight, a fellow neighbour of Rinzler from Petaluma, California, United States of America, helped him by designing a great illustration for the young adult novel's cover. Its original title was intended to be The Monsters of Mount Sinai in reference to the rock colosusses Indiana Jones, Bert Brodowski, Giovanni, Isabella and the Nazis encounter at Mount Sinai in the story's finale, but concerns that the title cound be interpreted as anti-Semitic due to words being subjective saw a change. For his story's main villain Helmut von Mephisto, Rinzler felt inspired by the research he did for The Complete Making of Indiana Jones behind-the-scenes book, which led him to uncover Ron Cobb's original Raiders of the Lost Ark concept art for Major Arnold Ernst Toht, which imagined the Gestapo officer as a cyborg with a mechanical arm only to be met with rejection by George Lucas and was later considered for Helmut Gutterbuhg Chris Columbus' discarded Indiana Jones and the Monkey King draft for the third Indiana Jones film,[1] with that script featuring as well a character named Werner von Mephisto.[2] Another scrapped concept from the Indiana Jones that Rinzler researched for his making of book[3] only to recycle for his original adventure was that of Henry Walton Jones, Senior giving Indy a hard time for not providing him with grandchildren,[4] a notion originally present in earlier drafts of Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.[3]
Continuity[]
On pages 42 and 43, Henry Jones, Sr. mistakenly refers to Indiana Jones as "junior" without a capital "J".
Cover gallery[]
Notes and references[]
- ↑ Annotations by J. W. Rinzler on his website (Web archive)
- ↑ Indiana Jones and the Monkey King
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 The Complete Making of Indiana Jones
- ↑ Indiana Jones and the Mystery of Mount Sinai
External links[]
New Indiana Jones Books from Scholastic on StarWars.com (backup link on Archive.org)- First Look: The Untold Adventures of Indiana Jones on StarWars.com (backup link on Archive.org)
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