The Scarlet Pimpernel #7: The Elusive Pimpernel

This was the third Scarlet pimpernel novel to be written, however it is seventh in the series if read chronologically. It should be read after I WILL REPAY and before LORD TONY’S WIFE. It is September 1793 and French Agent and chief spy-catcher Chauvelin is determined to get his revenge for the previous humiliations dished out to him at the hands of the Scarlet Pimpernel. Chauvelin travels to England as an official representative of the French government tasked with looking after the interests of French citizens, but this is only a cover and his real purpose is to trick Sir Percy Blakeney into returning to France, where he can be captured and put to the guillotine.