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From the author of The Scarlet Pimpernel, comes a series of 12 cozy
British mysteries featuring one of literature s first female
detectives. Molly Robertson-Kirk a.k.a. Lady Molly shares the same
mental prowess as C. Auguste Dupin and Sherlock Holmes but brings a
woman s wit to the table making for a formidable crime buster. Join
her as she solves the crimes that plague the hills and highlands of
Inverness, Scotland.
Citizen Chauvelin, of the Committee of Public Safety, presents
citizen Fouquier-Tinville, the Public Prosecutor, with the most
extraordinary claim:
"The dangerous English spy known to the world as the Scarlet
Pimpernel," he says, "is now safely under lock and key. He must be
transferred to the Abbaye prison forthwith -- and to the guillotine
as quickly as might be. No one is to take any risks this time.
There must be no question either of discrediting his famous League,
or of obtaining other more valuable information out of him. Such
methods have proved disastrous!"
There are no safe Englishmen these days, except the dead ones --
and it will not take citizen Fouquier-Tinville much thought or time
to frame an indictment against the notorious Scarlet Pimpernel . .
. and "that" will do away with the necessity of a prolonged trial.
The revolutionary government is at war with England now, and short
work can be made of all poisonous spies!
English novelist and playwright Baroness Emmuska Orczy
(1865-1947) achieved enduring success with her novels of politics
and intrigue set during the time of the French Revolution.
So it must also come from those members of the Blakeney family
in whose veins runs the blood of that Sir Percy Blakeney -- who is
known to history as the Scarlet Pimpernel -- for they in a manner
are responsible for the telling of this veracious chronicle.
For the past eight years now -- ever since the true story of The
Scarlet Pimpernel was put on record by the present author -- these
gentle, kind, inquisitive friends have asked me to trace their
descent back to an ancestor more remote than was Sir Percy.
Strangely enough his history has never been written before. it
is to the man himself -- to the memory of him which is so alive
here in Haarlem -- that I am indebted for the true history of his
life, and therefore I feel that but little apology is needed for
placing the true facts before all those who have known him hitherto
only by his picture, who have loved him only for what they
guessed.
The monograph which I now present with but few additions of
minor details, goes to prove what I myself had known long ago,
namely, that the Laughing Cavalier who sat to Frans Hals for his
portrait in 1624 was the direct ancestor of Sir Percy Blakeney,
known to history as the Scarlet Pimpernel.
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