1. The Laughing Cavalier
Haarlem, 1623. Gilda Beresteyn overhears a conspiracy involving her brother and Willem van Oldenbarnevelt, Lord of Stoutenburg, who seeks revenge on Maurice of Nassau for the execution of his father. To prevent Gilda warning the stadtholder, the conspirators hire an English soldier of fortune known as…
2. The First Sir Percy
The Netherlands, March 1624. Three months after the events of The Laughing Cavalier, Diogenes is now Sir Percy Blakeney and prepares to marry Gilda Beresteyn in a double wedding attended by Maurice of Nassau. The celebration is interrupted by military news from the eastern provinces, where…
3. The Scarlet Pimpernel
France and England, September 1792. A secret league of English gentlemen removes aristocrats from revolutionary France under the direction of an unknown leader who signs his messages with a small scarlet flower. In London, Sir Percy Blakeney appears to be a wealthy and empty-headed fashion leader,…
4. Sir Percy Leads the Band
France, January 1793. As the Convention completes the trial and execution of Louis XVI, Sir Percy Blakeney enters the country disguised among a wandering group of musicians. The deliberately unimpressive band allows him to listen in taverns and move through districts where officials are searching for…
5. The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel
Eleven linked stories follow Sir Percy Blakeney and the League as they rescue people threatened by revolutionary courts, prisons and local committees. The missions include divided families, children separated from parents, nobles hiding under false identities and League members whose courage is tested when the danger…
6. I Will Repay
Paris, 1793. Juliette de Marny has spent ten years bound by an oath to avenge her brother, who died in a duel with Paul Déroulède. When chance brings her into Déroulède’s household, she discovers that the republican patriot she has been taught to hate is generous,…
7. The Elusive Pimpernel
England and France, September 1793. Chauvelin is determined to recover his reputation by capturing the Scarlet Pimpernel and destroying the marriage that protects him. He uses the young actress Désirée Candeille and a carefully prepared social challenge to draw Marguerite into a position where Percy must…
8. Lord Tony’s Wife
Nantes, 1789, and England, 1793. Pierre Adet, a peasant humiliated by the aristocratic de Kernogan family, remakes himself as Martin-Roget and pursues a long revenge against Yvonne de Kernogan. His scheme appears complete when he gains her father’s consent to marriage, but Yvonne loves Lord Antony…
9. The Way of the Scarlet Pimpernel
Paris, September 1793. Louise de Croissy needs permission to take her dangerously ill son Charles-Léon into the country, but revolutionary travel controls make a simple journey impossible. Her young friend Josette Gravier is convinced that only the Scarlet Pimpernel can secure their escape. Carrying information and…
10. El Dorado
Paris, 1794. Sir Percy Blakeney undertakes his most politically sensitive mission: removing Louis XVII, the imprisoned son of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, from the Temple. The plan depends on secrecy, discipline and the ability of the League to operate inside a city governed by suspicion.…
11. Mam’zelle Guillotine
France, 1757. After Robert-François Damiens attacks Louis XV, the punishment imposed on him and the suspicion surrounding possible accomplices destroy the world of his daughter Gabrielle. Her grievance becomes fixed on the aristocratic Fernard family, whose fate she associates with her father’s abandonment and death. Decades…
12. Sir Percy Hits Back
Provincial France, 1793. Fleurette has grown up at a distance from Parisian politics, but the Law of Suspects reaches her village when revolutionary troops begin searching homes and arresting anyone connected with the former aristocracy. Her concern for a neighbouring family and her own concealed parentage…
13. The Adventures of the Scarlet Pimpernel
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.…
14. The Triumph of the Scarlet Pimpernel
France, 1794. Thérésa Cabarrus enters the struggle between revolutionary factions while her relationship with Jean-Lambert Tallien makes her both politically useful and personally vulnerable. Sir Percy Blakeney becomes involved when Thérésa’s schemes and Chauvelin’s pursuit threaten Marguerite and place the League inside a contest that reaches…
15. A Child of the Revolution
France, 1793. Aurore de Marigny, born into an aristocratic family, is drawn into the dangerous political and emotional world of André Vallon, a self-made republican whose service to the Revolution has carried him from the battlefield to Danton’s circle. Their attachment is strained by class resentment,…
16. Pimpernel and Rosemary
Europe after World War I. Rosemary Fowkes, a prominent British journalist, accepts an invitation to report on Romanian administration in Transylvania, a region she knew before the war through her Hungarian friends. She travels with her new husband, Jasper, while Peter Blakeney—the man she once loved…