The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel

This wonderful installment in Baroness Orczy's Scarlet Pimpernel series is a collection of short stories involving Sir Percy and his League members. Although the chronological order of the stories is lacking (Marat is lying dead in his bathtub in the beginning and quite alive in another story after that, for example), these tales are a great read regardless. I'd recommend this for all Scarlet Pimp... read more

More adventures amongst the terrors of revolutionary France. No one has uncovered the identity of the famous Scarlet Pimpernel - no one except his wife Marguerite and his arch-enemy, citizen Chauvelin. Sir Percy Blakeney is still at large however, evading capture...