Win the Last Pink Comic
We’re down to the third of the three Pink Carnation prints… the Study Scene!
Tonight, I’m giving a talk titled “Spies, Seductresses & Scoundrels”. Appropriate for this scene, no? So, to win a copy of the Study Scene, here’s today’s question:
— Who are your favorite spies, seductresses or scoundrels (fictional or historical)?
I’ll be choosing five people at random to win Study Scene prints. The contest closes Thursday night and winners will be announced on Friday.
Lord Vaughn takes the cake for scoundrel along with Adam Black from Karen Marie Moning’s Highlander Books… Seductress has to be Mary Alsworthy, even though she failed to seduce a husband by her fourth season! And for spies- none other than Richard, Percy, and Jane!
My favorite scoundrel is Sebastian, Lord Vaughn.
Favorite spy is possibly Bond, James Bond.
Favorite seductress, let’s say Ingrid Bergman’s character in “Notorious.”
I’d have to say that my favorite scoundrel would have to be Rhett Butler.
My favorite spy is a tough one, of course Jane, but Professor Snape from Harry Potter is one heck of a spy.
Seductress I would say maybe Anne Boleyn.
Overall it’s a tough one. There are some good ones out there.
For this week I’ll go with Turnip, since I just finished Mischief yesterday. Technically he’s not really a spy, but helps out at times.
Next week I’ll probably have a new favorite.
Scoundrel:Henry VIII
Spy: Mata Hari
Seductress: Cleopatra
Scoundrel:Henry VIII
Spy: Mata Hari
Seductress: Cleopatra
Hmm . . .
My favorite scoundrel is . . . probably also Rhett Butler.
My favorite spy would be Sherlock Holmes (occasionally he was a spy and not just a dectective).
And, my favorite seductress would be Cleopatra.
This is it! I’m going to win this time!!
Some scoundrels – Sir John and Sethos from Elizabeth Peters (Vicky Bliss and Amelia Peabody respectively). The Alistair men from Heyer’s These Old Shades and Devil’s Cub.
Was Lord Peter Wimsey a spy? He worked for the foreign office. Oh well, I’m listing him anyway. He should be on every list.
Zaphod Beeblebrox–also a scoundrel. I bet no one will mention him.
I know it is TV but I LOVE Sam Axe on Burn Notice. A spy and a scoundrel!
I’m interested to hear what people say about seductresses.
Who doesn’t love The Scarlet Pimpernel?
If you had listed “seducer” instead … then Sam Axe would qualify for all three 🙂 … and I LOVE Burn Notice!
And of course … the Pink characters 🙂
Mata Hari, I think – has any spy been so steeped in mystery and conjecture in the modern age?
But fictionally speaking, I like The Bourne movies (not so much the books), and I like Agent ZigZag (Eddie Chapman) from WW2, as a double agent.
Thanks! Awesome giveaway!
I was fascinated when I found out that Roald Dahl and Julia Child were WWII spies.
I’m also obsessed with CIA shows and I really wish Covert Affairs was year-round.
Wish I could be at that talk! It sounds amazing.
scoundrel: Jamie Waring as played by Tyrone Power in The Black Swan yum!
Spy: James Bond…yummy!
Seductress: Lady Emma Hamilton..got the heroic Horatio Nelson to stay in Italy and disregard his wife..but her portraits are beautiful. In fact, she is the cover of Seduction of the Crimson Rose..what a beauty.
My favorite scoundrel–fictional, thank Heaven–is Harry Flashman in George MacDonald Fraser’s series. Why I’m so fond of him I couldn’t say. I’d cross several streets in a blizzard to avoid him in real life. He hasn’t Lord Vaughn’s redeeming qualities.
He’s such a delightfully snarky character, though. He’s gorgeous. (And doesn’t he know it!
Also, the books have all those lovely false pseudo-documents. I love that in a series! 😉
Hmmm,
It’s already been said, but Rhett Butler is also my favorite scoundrel.
As for spies, Isabelle Spellman from Lisa Lutz’s “The Spellman Files” is pretty great. As are, of course, our lovely Pink Carnation.
I’m totally blanking on seductresses though.
I would have to agree with Snape from Harry Potter as being the best spy.
As far as seductress goes the best literary one has to be milady D’winter from the 3 Musketeers. She is just so evil, but so awesome at being evil!
Oh this is tough and I’d hate to be repetitive but I agree with so many
Spy: Professor Severus Snape and Bond
Scoundrel: Henry VIII
Seductress: Cleopatra is just the best choice I can think of
What a fun question! 🙂
I’d say my favorite scoundrel is Lord Vaughn. Yummmmmmmm 😉
Spy? Other than most of the Pink characters of course, I adore Sherlock Holmes.
Spy: James Bond
Scoundrel: Harry Flashman
Combo of above : Richard Sharpe (I know, not a category, but I had to get him in here somehow !)
Seductress: Scarlett O’ Hara
Spy: Freya Stark (OK she was more of an explorer, but she helped with intelligence during WWII.)
Scoundrel: Winston Churchill totally counts as a Scoundrel. Churchill = the best of everything.
Seductress: Anne Boleyn
Spy: James Bond
Scoundral: Sebastian, Lord St. Vincent
Seductress: Marilyn Monroe
Spy: James Bond
Scoundrel: Sebastian, Lord St. Vincent
Seductress: Marilyn Monroe
Spy: Josephine Baker
Scoundrel: Charles II
Seductress: Anne Boleyn
I don’t know if any of these have been said before 😉
Scoundrels/Spies-Rhet Butler, James Bond, Lord Vaughn
Seductress-Cleopatra; Even an ugly woman can get her man if she plays it right. 🙂
spy: intrepid (from WWII)
scoundrel: rhett butler
seductress: helen of troy
Spy: The Scarlet Pimpernel, Bond, James Bond
Scoundrel: Cary Grant in Notorious and Rhet Butler
Seductress: Brigitte Bardot and Ingrid Bergman in Notorious
Spy: Percy Blakeney
Scoundrel: Lord Vaughn
Seductress: Anne Boleyn
Spy- certainly the sexiest, James Bond!
Scoundrel- Sebastian, Lord Vaughn
Seductress- Cleopatra
Han Solo is my favorite scoundrel! 🙂
James Bond would be my favorite spy, seductress would be Nikita, and I cannot think of a scoundrel.
Spy & Seductress in one: Mata Hari
Scoundrel: Wickham, we really needed some Austen for balance here!
Not including your characters:
Scoundrel: Casanova (classic)
Seductress(es): The Sirens, Greek Mythology (they can seduce with their voices!)
Spy: Belle Boyd (spy for the Confederate Army during the Civil War)
Scoundrel: Harry Flashman
Seductress: Lady Hamilton
Spy: Matt Helm
Spy: Simon Templar (from the 1940’s series)
Scoundrel: Han Solo
Seductress: Nicole Kidman’s character in Moulin Rouge.
My favorite scoundrel is so Rhett Butler!
Kinda blanking on the others.
Soundrel:Bernie Madoff
Spy/Seductress Rose ONeale Greenhow
Favorite spy: Sean Connery as James Bond and the Scarlet Pimpernel of course!
Favorite scoundrel: Rhett Butler
Favorite seductress: Anne Boleyn
I think most of these have been mentioned already but I’d have to go with…
Spy – Professor Severus Snape
Scoundrel – Sebastin, Lord Vaughn
Seductress – Milady de Winter from The Three Musketeers or Saffron from the (sadly) short-lived TV series Firefly
Spy: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern (a la “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead”)
Scoundrel: Heathcliff
Sudrectress: Anna Karenina
Favorite seductress: Jezebel (Bette Davis)and Mary Alsworthy, Scarlett O’Hara, Ms. Skeffington (another great Bette Davis Character)
Favorite scoundrel: Sebastian, Lord Vaughn of course, Paul Chauvelin (Villain in The Scarlet Pimpernel movie with Jane Seymour)Sauron (Christopher Plummer in LOTR.)
favorite spy: Severous Snape, Percy Blakeney, Sean Connery’s James Bond,
Scoundrel: Han Solo, Rhett Butler
Spy: the Purple Gentian, the Pink Carnation, Robert Redford’s character in Spy Game
Seductress: Poison Ivy and Kim Novak’s character in Bell, Book, and Candle
favorite scoundrel: Prince Charming and favorite seductress: Cinderella..okay maybe I’ve watched too many children movies lately. scoundrel in your books since that’s all I can think of at the moment is like most others Lord Vaughn. I love his witty repartee. spy: the Purple Gentian. Seductress I have no clue. Congrats on all the expansion, pink store, comics, paperbacks etc.
Rhett and Scarlett are up there for sure.
And I do so love Sir Percy!
Sorry for the lack of originality…
Spy: Sean Connery’s James Bond
Scoundrel: Eric Northman(Charlaine Harris)
Seductress: Helen of Troy
Favorite spies from your series are Miles and Henrietta. Wasp or Lisbeth from Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (high tech spying).
Favorite scoundrel would be Willoughby from Sense and Sensibility. Or Wickham from Pride and Prejudice
Favorite seductress is Scarlet O’Hara in Gone with the Wind
Spy: Han Solo
Scoundrel: Han Solo
Seductress: Han Solo..?
Favorite Spy – Jason Bourne (non-historical fiction) and of course, the Pink Carnation!
Favorite Scoundrel – Lord Vaughn and if vampires count, Dracula (Bram Stoker’s)
Favorite Seductress – Mary Anne Clarke (from Daphne du Maurier’s Mary Anne)
spies: Severus Snape
seductresses: Lord Vaughn
scoundrels: Lord Vaughn/ Rhett Butler
Spy: The trio of heroes who have been on MI-5/Spooks [Rupert Penry-Jones, Matthew MacFadyen and Richard Armitage–particularly b/c they also played Captain Wentworth, Mr. Darcy and Mr. Thornton. :c)]
Scoundrel: My freshmen year of college flame? If he’s history, does that count as historical?….but for fiction I’d have to say Richard Castle (Nathan Fillion) from Castle.
Seductress: Catwoman [and particularly as played by Michelle Pfiffer]
Favorite spy: James Bond
Favorite Scoundrel: Axel Hammond from the Play The Nerd by Larry Shue
Favorite Seductress: Marquise Isabelle de Merteuil from Dangerous Liaisons.
I have to say that I think the Scarlet Pimpernel is an amazing spy. I love that series 🙂 And, of course, I love the Pink Carnation characters, especially Lord Vaughn and Turnip Fitzhugh–imagine if they were stuck together for, oh about an hour, and had to actually have a conversation.
I also love Sherlock Holmes (and Dr. Watson), even though I don’t think they technically fall in any category–they’re “detectives”, not spies.
Spy: The Scarlet Pimpernel
Scoundrel: Mr. Wickham from P&P
Seductress: Lady GaGa (I think she’s seductive as they come ^.^)
Lucrezia Borgia and Anne Boleyn to be sure (as seductresses go). Not sure I can pick a spy, we don’t get a whole lot of those in Counter-Reform Lombardy. I do, however, love the story of Duke Ercole d’Este of Ferrara paying Alberto Cantino smuggle a copy of a map of the New World out of Portugal in 1500. For a scoundrel…please don’t make me pick. I love all my well-mannered ill-moraled men.
Lord Vaughn, scoundrel & seductor
Severus Snape, spy
I’m going to have to echo a lot of people here and claim the Scarlet Pimpernel for my favorite spy! My favorite seductress is Mary Crawford, from Mansfield Park… I’ve always been of the opinion that she was just misunderstood by Fanny Price. As for favorite scoundrel, I think Robin Hood could fit the bill (I’m currently re-reading Elsa Watson’s Maid Marian, so I have Robin Hood on the brain at the moment!).
Oh, I hope I win this one..it’s my fave of the three!
I’m picking all these outside of the Pink books.
SPY: TIE: Bond and Jason Bourne
SCOUNDREL: Neal Caffrey on “White Collar”–maybe he’s too much of a good guy to really be a scoundrel but he is a criminal and has a way with the ladies!
SEDUCTRESS–Barbara Stanwyck’s Jean in “The Lady Eve.”
Rhett Butler – scoundrel
Anne Boelyn – seductress
Lord Vaughn – spy
Hmmm…. Spies? 007. Enough said. (Although I’m a little bit of a Harry Potter Nerd so Snape too).
Scoundrel? So many choices… Richard III, Falstaff, well any shakespeare takes the cake…
Seductresses? Satine from Moulin Rouge (I really do love that movie… Madonna…
Spy: Sethos from the Peabody series
Scoundrel: It has to be Wickham from Pride and Prejudice. Hard to imagine a man with fewer scruples…
Seductress: Alma Schindler? Helen of Troy?
I just watched a performance of Othello last night and I have to say that Iago might be the essence of scoundrel!
Scoundrel: Rhett Butler
Seductress: Scarlett O’Hara (they were perfect for each other)
Spy: the Scarlett Pimpernel, Purple Gentian, and the Pink Carnation
I’m going to be unconventional with the spy and say Aphra Behn. Come one, writing amazing plays and novellas and a spy in the 18th century? Amazing.
Favorite Scoundrel? Dorian Grey.
My favorite spy would have to be Bond, James Bond (as played by Roger Moore or Sean Connery.) As for seductresses, I’d have to agree with Rachel Nicole (#55)- Barbara Stanwyck was fabulous at playing the seductress (The Lady Eve, Ball of Fire, Double Indemnity)!
OK, I can’t help but enter my own Spy/Scoundrel/Seductress here!
Spy: Michael Westen on Burn Notice.
Scoundrel: Andre-Louis Moreau from Rafael Sabatini’s “Scaraouche.” You can’t beat the line: “”He was born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad.”
Seductress: Clodia Metelli, aka Lesbia from Catullus’ love poems, hands down. Unlike Cleopatra, she was actually supposed to be very beautiful. And Cicero wrote an entire speech about how wicked she was, which is kind of awesome.
Scoundrel would have to be Rhett Butlar… seductress goes to Anne Boleyn and spy would be Bond, James Bond. Thanks for the great contests!
Spy: Sydney Bristow from Alias
Scoundrel: I think I’m going to go with Willoughby from Sense & Sensibility.
As for a seductress has to be Anne Boleyn.
Spy: Austen Powers oooo or Chuck Bartowski!
Scoundrel: The Duke in Moulin Rouge, he’s so awkward it’s funny, and Lord Richard 😉
Seductress:Falicity shagwell, And Inga the lab assistant from Young frankenstein. she knew what she was doing!
Spies: Pink Carnation/Purple genetian
Severus Snape
Tommy and Tuppence Beresford (Agatha Christie)
(Literary)
Edith Cavell (WWI) (historical)
Michael Weston (Burn Notice)(Television)
Scoundrels:
Rhett Butler
Anthony Dinozzo (NCIS) (television)
Seductress;
unsure
This question was a little harder to answer I had to think about. I also was inspired by other people’s answers; although I have genuine affection for all listed.
My favorite spy/seductress is (the very fictional) Carmen Sandiego!
My favorite scoundrel is Sir Guy of Gisbourne (as played by Richard Armitage on BBC America’s Robin Hood. Swoon.)
My favorite spy is James Bond.
Hmm…favorite spy would be Severus Snape (he’s completely nasty yet sympathetic at the same time!). And I’m going to agree with someone above who said Han Solo as my favorite scoundrel…or Porthos from The Three Musketeers. And I guess Artemis from the Dark Hunter series as seductress. I love how she never really gets what she wants, even though she uses all of her feminine wiles!
Lord Vaughn is my favorite scoundrel, although Georgette Heyer does a pretty good job to win my favorite with Devil’s Cub,the Marquis of Vidal. Of course, his father the Duke of Avon in These Old Shades is very good too;-)) Love them all!
Spy- James Bond!
Seductress- Scarlett O’Hara
Scoundrels- Lord Vaughn, Austen’s John Willoughby, and Richard Armitage in BBC’s Robin Hood