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Description In the Scarlet Pimpernelβs fourth outing, he and his league want to free the orphaned Dauphin of France from his captors. But someone else has the same idea, although for very different, and selfish, reasons. In addition to trying to outflank his rival, the Pimpernel also has to deal with a member of his inner circle whose romance has caused him to disobey orders and put the entire plan in jeopardy. Completing his mission while once again escaping the clutches of his arch-enemy
Description A young woman in 17th century Holland inadvertently overhears the details of a plot to kill a political figure. The principal figures in the plot, one of whom is her brother and another her former lover, hire an insolent English mercenary to kidnap her to get her out of the way until their deeds are done. From there very little goes according to plan. For her fifth novel in the series, Baroness Orczy uses Franz Halsβ famous painting titled The Laughing Cavalier to build an elaborate
Description The Land That Time Forgot opens with the discovery near Greenland of a floating thermos flask containing a manuscript by castaway Tyler Bowen, Jr. The document recounts a series of adventures that starts with a sea battle against a German U-boat and ends on a mysterious island populated by hostile prehistoric animals and people. The second part of the book, βThe People That Time Forgot,β continues the story with the tale of Tom Billings, who has been sent on a mission to rescue
Description In the third installment of her Scarlet Pimpernel stories, Baroness Orczy brings back Chauvelin, the French official unable to catch the Pimpernel in the first novel. This time he is more determined, more ruthless, and more devious. He plans to capture both the Pimpernel and his wife, threatening an entire town in the process. He has thought of every possibility, closed every loophole, anticipated every move of his arch-rival. It appears that at last the Pimpernel might have met his
Description The young Vicomte de Marny rashly challenges a French official to a duel, and dies as a result. The Vicomteβs father, the ancient Duc de Marny, insists that his daughter, Juliette, swear an oath before God to seek revenge on the man who killed her brother. Years later, as the French Revolution rages, Juliette insinuates herself into the officialβs household, and quickly discovers a way to anonymously accuse him before the National Convention. It will take all of the Scarlet
Description During the unloading of an Insular and Continental Steam Navigation Company ship arrived from Rouen, the Bullfinch, a cask falls, splits, and reveals its unexpected contents. As the dockworkers try to work out what to do, Mr. LΓ©on Felix arrives and claims the cask as his own. His actions set into motion a complicated trail for the detectives of Londonβs Scotland Yard and Parisβs SΓ»retΓ© to follow to the end. Freeman Wills Crofts was one of many authors writing crime fiction in