Status Updates From رسول القيصر

The evil tatars led by the treacherous (for some reason or other) Ogareff, aided by his personal Roma spy Sangarre know that they have the heroic Michel Strogoff among their prisoners and decide to find him by threatening to torture his mother. However in addition to having a powerful nose we have also been told that Strogoff has a body of iron so surely they could use a magnet to identify him?

We were told way, way back on page 34 that the hero has a "nez puissant", but so far he has done nothing special with it. He has neither smashed through walls nor dug tunnels with that powerful nose, and there are less than 200 pages remaining for that nose to save the day!

This chapter is called "un dernier effort" , which seems premature as I am not even half way through the book yet!

So far so good. A key characteristic of Julio Verne is his ability to profoundly detail the context of the story, as well as providing deep and sufficient context.