| Blackstone and the Scourge of Europe | |
| Author: | Derek Lambert |
| Country: | United Kingdom |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Edmund Blackstone |
| Genre: | Historical thriller |
| Publisher: | Eyre Methuen (UK) Stein and Day (US) |
| Release Date: | 1974 |
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| Preceded By: | Beau Blackstone |
| Followed By: | Blackstone 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.