Lord Tony's Wife, by Baroness Orczy is a sequel book to the classic adventure tale, The Scarlet Pimpernel. It was first published in 1917. A French-language version, translated and adapted by Françoise delle Donne, was published in 1954 under the title Le Rire du Mouron Rouge.

An aristocrat and his daughter are targeted by a former peasant who hides his true identity to ingratiate himself into the world of French royalists. After gaining their trust, he attempts to marry the girl, but she’s already eloped with another. Pierre Adet is a French peasant who becomes obsessed with landowner, Duc de Kernogan and his daughter Yvonne. After experiencing unfair treatment and wages, he incites a mob against the aristocrat that proves unsuccessful. After escaping execution, he travels to England under an alias, creating a new life for himself alongside the upper-class. Despite past events, he’s able to hide his identity to romantically pursue Yvonne. His plan goes awry when she falls in love with Lord Antony Dewhurst, whom she quickly marries. Infuriated, Adet kidnaps the new bride forcing Lord Antony to seek help from a trusted friend, the Scarlet Pimpernel. Lord Tony’s Wife: An Adventure of the Scarlet Pimpernel is fueled by deception and revenge. One man’s ongoing mission to destroy a family leads to a series of challenges and unexpected events. The Scarlet Pimpernel embarks on a new journey to save the love of one’s life. With an eye-catching new cover, and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Lord Tony’s Wife: An Adventure of the Scarlet Pimpernel is both modern and readable.

Another adventure of the Scarlet pimpernel! As the title suggests, it follows the story of Lord Tony and his wife, Yvonne. It is full of suspense adventure and romance. Lord Tony and Yvonne elope after some disturbing happenings including an angry mob and an assault on Yvonne by her own father. Later a man set on revenge and with the help of Chauvelin steal Yvonne away, and Lord Tony must go to the Scarlet Pimpernel for assistance. Will they be able to save her and her father from the clutches of Pierre Adet and Chauvelin? Will Lord Tony ever even see his wife again?

A prologue in 1789 shows the discontented peasantry rising against the arrogant Duc de Kernogan, and his ruthless execution of the ringleader's innocent father. Four years later, the Duc is in exile, and bargaining to give his daughter to a rich merchant who promises funds to the royalist cause. Yvonne, the daughter, has other plans, and elopes with Lord Tony, one of the Scarlet Pimpernel's loyal band. The Duc and the merchant plot to abduct her - but the reader knows what the Duc does not, that the supposed merchant is the revolt's ringleader in disguise, and out for revenge on the whole family. The Duc thinks that they are taking the girl to Holland, but the ship steers for Nantes, where the revolutionaries are in firm control, and atrocities like the mass drowning of priests have taken place. The second half of the book takes place in Nantes, as the Scarlet Pimpernel takes on the seemingly impossible task of rescuing Lord Tony's wife from a fate worse than death.

Baroness Emma Magdolna Rozália Mária Jozefa Borbála "Emmuska" Orczy de Orczi (23 September 1865 - 12 November 1947) was a Hungarian-born British novelist, playwright and artist of noble origin. She is most known for her series of novels featuring the Scarlet Pimpernel. This is one of her novels.