Author: Baroness Orczy, Macmillan, India, Rs. 160
Amidst the fresh French Revolution, Royal Aristocrats and their families mysteriously fled to England and escaped their deaths at the guillotine. It was Scarlet Pimpernel – the mastermind behind it, who risked his own life to save the innocent royalists.
M. Chauvelin – the French spy had come to capture this ever so elusive and daring Englishman. Threatening her with her brother – Armand St Just’s life, he roped in his former French friend and now the wife of the richest man in England – Sir Percy Blakeney’s better half – Lady Marguerite Blakeney. Marguerite – the beautiful theatre artist was already famed to help capture the French Royalist, Marquis de St Cyr and his family.
Struggling with her own cold marriage along with guiltily helping capture the saviour she most admired, Marguerite received the shock of her life when Scarlet Pimpernel’s real identity faced her. She rushed to save him. Was she able to save him and her brother? Was she able to explain the reasons for her former blackened act? The answers to these lay in your hands when you read The Scarlet Pimpernel retold by E. F. Dodd.
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