Baroness Orczy

The finest and darkest of the Scarlet Pimpernel adventures. In the Paris of 1794, with the Terror at its height, Sir Percy Blakeney slips back into the city to smuggle the child Dauphin out of the Temple prison - but his enemy Chauvelin has at last found the one bait the Pimpernel cannot refuse, and springs a trap designed to break the man behind the mask. Suspenseful and unexpectedly moving, this edition presents Orczy's complete and unabridged novel, newly typeset and illustrated with 50 full-page color plates of the Revolution, David's among them.