Mam'zelle Guillotine
by:
Emmuska Orczy (author)
The author writes, "Three aristos who were being sent to Paris for trial were absolutely spirited away from under the very nose of the highly efficient police administration of the province. Spirited away! There was no other word for it! And the whole thing was obviously the work of those...
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The author writes, "Three aristos who were being sent to Paris for trial were absolutely spirited away from under the very nose of the highly efficient police administration of the province. Spirited away! There was no other word for it! And the whole thing was obviously the work of those abominable English, who were emissaries of the devil, for no flesh and blood human creature could have engineered so damnable a trick and then disappeared as if the earth had swallowed them up."
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781600966507 (1600966500)
ASIN: 1600966500
Publish date: July 1st 2008
Publisher: Classic Books Library
Pages no: 272
Edition language: English
Series: The Scarlet Pimpernel (#7)
This book, seventh in the series chronologically, was first published around 1940. By then Orczy had apparently forgotten her own Pimpernel timeline, especially as it pertained to books written prior to 1920, as she makes mention of an adventure that hasn't happened yet and claims Lord Tony is among...
Mentioned in my old diary. Enjoyable historical romp!
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