I thought I'd replied to this, but apparently not?
That one is "Sir Percy Hits Back", which according to the list I found was published a few years after "The Triumph".
Makes sense: the timeframe for this story is pretty much prescribed by involving the fall of Robespierre as a plot point, which means that if the author wanted to write any further Scarlet Pimpernel novels she would then have been obliged to go back and set them at an earlier date, before the end of the Terror. On locating a list of the novels in 'chronological order' of setting, I found "Sir Percy Hits Back" (which I always want to write as "Strikes Back"!) listed as occurring as the penultimate story, immediately before this one, and as I (vaguely) remember it, it wouldn't fit very well any earlier in the series. It doesn't exactly fit well in the context of "Triumph", but presumably the author was rather stuck with that!
Possibly I ought to go back and reread it; I definitely do have a copy of "Sir Percy Hits Back" on the shelves, alongside "Eldorado" and "Lord Tony's Wife" (and "The Laughing Cavalier", which I remember as being a pretty much unreadable 17th-century spin-off), but am currently in the middle of "The Elusive Pimpernel", which I picked up under the initial illusion that it was the book version of the audio I'd just been listening to (these confounded series titles, all the same!) I do remember "Sir Percy Hits Back" as being one of the more unusual ones, consisting almost entirely of non-regular characters in a new setting...
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Date: 2024-10-20 01:22 pm (UTC)Makes sense: the timeframe for this story is pretty much prescribed by involving the fall of Robespierre as a plot point, which means that if the author wanted to write any further Scarlet Pimpernel novels she would then have been obliged to go back and set them at an earlier date, before the end of the Terror. On locating a list of the novels in 'chronological order' of setting, I found "Sir Percy Hits Back" (which I always want to write as "Strikes Back"!) listed as occurring as the penultimate story, immediately before this one, and as I (vaguely) remember it, it wouldn't fit very well any earlier in the series. It doesn't exactly fit well in the context of "Triumph", but presumably the author was rather stuck with that!
Possibly I ought to go back and reread it; I definitely do have a copy of "Sir Percy Hits Back" on the shelves, alongside "Eldorado" and "Lord Tony's Wife" (and "The Laughing Cavalier", which I remember as being a pretty much unreadable 17th-century spin-off), but am currently in the middle of "The Elusive Pimpernel", which I picked up under the initial illusion that it was the book version of the audio I'd just been listening to (these confounded series titles, all the same!)
I do remember "Sir Percy Hits Back" as being one of the more unusual ones, consisting almost entirely of non-regular characters in a new setting...