ZM Top Secret
ZM Top Secret is a series of children's books by Marliese Arold . The ZM stands for time machine and at the same time explains the content of the books.
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The children Michael and Heike Jaschke visit their great-uncle Professor Ambrosius Köhler during the summer holidays. He is a passionate inventor and has built a time machine in his basement laboratory. This has some pitfalls, and so the two of them experience the most unbelievable adventures again and again with the neighbor boy Thomas Pahl and his dog Moorteufel.
Books
The series was published by Pelikan Verlag Hannover in the 1980s . The first volumes appeared as a sub-series in the series Treffpunkt Abenteuer (TA), the first two volumes being reissued at the end of the 1980s and supplemented by the new volume The Last Night of Troy . Then Pelikan discontinued the paperback series.
| No. | title | TA |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | The old professor's secret | 7/301 |
| 2 | Grave robbery in the Valley of the Kings | 8/302 |
| 3 | The sun city of Ol-Hamar | 9 |
| 4th | The fire witch | 15th |
| 5 | The riddle of Machu Picchu | 19th |
| 6th | The ruler of Atlantis | 23 |
| 7th | The ghost hand of Rome | 27 |
| 8th | The shadow of Genghis Khan | 31 |
| 9 | In the land of a thousand dreams | 35 |
| 10 | Death sign dragon ship | 38 |
| 11 | The last night of Troy | 311 |
In 1990 there was a continuation of the ZM series as a hardcover, illustrated by Frank Rosenzweig , which starts with the numbering again at 1.
| No. | title |
|---|---|
| 1 | The cavemen from Mammuttal |
| 2 | The mysterious gold rush town |
| 3 | The emerald of Baghdad |
| 4th | The druid's revenge |
| 5 | The elephants of death |
| 6th | The pirate's mask |
| 7th | Expedition to Babylon |
| 8th | Caravan to doom |
| 9 | Who kidnapped Einstein? |
| 10 | The guardian of the pyramid |
| 11 | The Pompeii disaster |
| 12 | Wrong course to India |
| 13 | The shaman's horse |
| 14th | In the labyrinth of the bull god |
| 15th | Atlantis II: The City Under the Sea |
| 16 | The devil's song from the Lion's Arch |
| 17th | The false maharajah |
| 18th | The temple city in the jungle |
Parts of the second series were reissued by Erika Klopp Verlag in the 2000s, but the protagonists and their background are different: the professor is now called Magnus Ambrosius and has a grandson (Benjamin), whose mother has died. Benjamin's friends are Melanie Jeschke and Thomas Pahl. Moorteufel is now called Major. The first two versions of the time machine do not appear, and neither do Ms. Schneider, the professor's housekeeper.
| No. | title |
|---|---|
| 1 | In the Trap of the Magician [= The Druid's Revenge] |
| 2 | The guardian of the pyramid |
| 3 | The pirate's mask |
| 4th | Trapped in Pompeii [= The Catastrophe of Pompeii] |