Pierre

## Appearances

### Appears in

The Search for the Stolen Maze Stone, The Mystery of the Empire Maze Tower, The Curious Case of the Castle in the Sky

### Debut

The Search for the Stolen Maze Stone

Pierre, often referred to as the Maze Detective, is a specialist detective who is called in to cases relating to mazes and the main character in the series. Pierre is a friend of Carmen and her dog Mazey and she often joins Pierre on his cases.

## Biography

### **The Search for the Stolen Maze Stone**

Pierre sits in his garage, waiting on a case to appear, when Carmen bursts in with the news that the Maze Stone has been stolen by Mr X. When Pierre arrives at the museum the place has been thrown into pandemonium. Pierre catches sight of Mr X and the chase begins.

They chase through the Carnival Day celebrations and the open-air café. In the downtown district Mr X steels a hot air balloon from the Opera City Flying Club. Pierre and Carmen borow two flying machines chase after him over the oceans admidst the balloons they land in the cast in the south and follow him into the forest village, where Carmen gets lost and he has to continue alone. He follows Mr. X into the haunted Mansion, where he finds Dracula who has rescued Carmen and the two are reunited. Dracula asks Pierre if in return he could find his girlfriend Dracula Girl and Pierre does and continues the chase.

They cross though the forgotten town as Mr X takes a boat out to sea as the two maze detectives follow suit. They sail throw the ocean and sprint across the port town, where they have to switch to a mine cart to follow Mr X through the mountains. After a winding course, they arrive in the mysterious market where they follow Mr X into the Cog Wheel Park. After a long chase, Mr X gives up the Maze Stone and flees. Pierre returns the stone and is celebrated together with Carmen like a hero.1

### The Mystery of the Empire Maze Tower

Pierre is called to a meeting on a cruise ship, where Lord Candy announces that Mr X has threatened to steal the Maze Stone. Pierre must team up with other famous detectives to bring Mr. X to justice. After Carmen's dog mazey starts barking Pierre relizes that Mr X has just left the ship on a life boat so the chase commences once more.

After Pierre and the other detectives reach the lifeboats and sail in to port, Mr X is already on a tram into the city. Pierre, Carmen and Mazey just about catch the next tram, only to see him run into the Empire Maze Tower.

Pierre chases him through the lobby, but when he and the others reach the candy store Mr X has set out a number of challenges delaying the detectives farther. With their free tickets, Pierre and Carmen take the roller coaster up to the next level. There he runs through the guestrooms into the library where Mr X has set up even more challenges. Eventually Pierre arrives at the Great Exhibition and passes through it into the Golden Theater, but Mr X is already entering the boiler room. Carefully balancing across the maze of pipes Pierre and the detectives arrive in the Observation Deck. Chasing after Mr X the detectives discover that Mr X had poisoned Lord Candy and the detectives had to find the antidote before continuing. Finally they arrived at the roof where Mr X was neering the Maze Cube, when Mazey took a hold of his cape so that Pierre and the rest could catch up. Pierre arrested Mr X and he and Mazey made headlines.2

### The Curious Case of the Castle in the Sky

Pierre and Carmen arrive in Canal City for the carnvial festivities, but he gets a letter from a mysterious duo calling themselves the Iron-masked Duo who set up some challenges in the lobby of their hotel. After he finishes the mazes he takes to the streets of the city after the duo. He chases them through the Moon Square and the Striped Mansion. Outside the water parade has started, but Pierre and Carmen have to find Mario who gives them a ride to Motor Mountain.

There, a racer tells Pierre he has a stomach-ache and so Pierre and Carmen get to join in the race. At the end of the race they see the Iron-Masked Duo have taken to the skies in a hot air balloon, but Pierre soon finds a balloon and continues the chase. As night falls Pierre and Carmen arrive in Root Island where they catch up to the myseterious masked duo who are by the Sun Tower.

Inside the duo reveals that they are guardians of the Maze Egg, but under one of the World Maze Disorders attempts to steel the Egg, it fell down in the Sun Tower and they need a maze detective to lead them up the complicated route back to the top. They climb through the Grand Tree Town and into the city of Nawona. When they come out they just have to cross the Dragon's Nest and they arrive in the Castle in the Sky only for a full-fledged attack taking place! Pierre and his company managed to navagate through the mayhem and place the Maze Egg on its pedestal. Peace has once more been returned and the battle was won!3

## Sources

1. The Search For the Stolen Maze Stone
2. The Mystery of the Empire Maze Tower
3. The Curious Case of the Castle in the Sky