Baroness Orczy · 1905 · thriller

Baroness Orczy's 1905 adventure, the tale that invented the secret-identity hero. By day Sir Percy Blakeney is the most foppish dandy in London society; by night he is the Scarlet Pimpernel, slipping across the Channel into Revolutionary France to pluck condemned aristocrats from the very shadow of the guillotine, always one step ahead of the relentless agent Chauvelin.

1. 1
   London

   Sir Percy Blakeney plays the idle dandy in English society, his true daring hidden from all, even his wife.

2. 2
   Dover

   From the white cliffs the secret crossings begin, by night and in disguise.

3. 3
   Calais

   The French shore, the smugglers inn called the Chat Gris, and a desperate rescue on the cliffs.

4. 4
   Paris

   And into the heart of the Terror itself, to snatch the condemned from the foot of the guillotine.