The Elusive Pimpernel

Description

In this swashbuckling sequel to The Scarlet Pimpernel, set during the French Revolution, Sir Percy Blakeney attempts to smuggle French aristocrats out of the country to safety, but Sir Percy’s spy-catching arch enemy Chauvelin plays out a vile plot to eliminate the Pimpernel and his beautiful wife once and for all. It is the early days of the French Republic and Robespierre’s revolutionaries find their wicked schemes repeatedly being thwarted. It appears that the cunning and heroic Pimpernel is more than a match for them all. Emma Magdolna Rozália Mária Jozefa Borbála Orczy de Orczi was a Hungarian-British novelist, more conveniently known as Baroness Orczi. This is the 1910 hardback edition in good condition except for a tear to the frontispiece.