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Blackstone and the Scourge of Europe

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Blackstone and the Scourge of Europe
First edition
AuthorDerek Lambert
LanguageEnglish
SeriesEdmund Blackstone
GenreHistorical thriller
PublisherEyre Methuen (UK)
Stein and Day (US)
Publication date
1974
Publication placeUnited Kingdom
Media typePrint
Preceded byBeau Blackstone 
Followed byBlackstone Underground 

Blackstone and the Scourge of Europe is a 1974 historical thriller novel by the British writer Derek Lambert, published under the pen name Richard Falkirk.[1] It is the fourth in a series of six novels featuring Edmund Blackstone, a member of the Bow Street Runners in the pre-Victorian era. It is 1820 and George IV orders Blackstone to the island of St Helena, where the imprisoned former French Emperor Napoleon may be plotting to escape.

References

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  1. ^ Adamson p.222

Bibliography

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  • Lynda G. Adamson. World Historical Fiction. Greenwood Publishing Group, 1999.