This collection brings together eight Scarlet Pimpernel stories in which apparently minor encounters conceal operations by Sir Percy Blakeney and the League. English drawing rooms, French inns, châteaux, prisons and revolutionary offices become stages for false quarrels, misleading witnesses and identities designed to survive official scrutiny. The people at risk range from aristocratic families to individuals caught by private betrayal or political suspicion.
Across the stories, Percy’s reputation is both weapon and disguise: enemies search for an extravagant English adventurer while overlooking servants, travellers and compromised witnesses who are part of his design. The shorter form concentrates on the mechanism of each rescue and on the moment when a trap is reversed. Taken together, the tales provide a cross-section of the League’s work during the Reign of Terror rather than one continuous campaign.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
24 books
Ken Follett
16 books
Edgar Rice Burroughs
41 books