Paris provides the setting for Simon's meeting with a lovely woman whose brother is later suspected of murdering an undercover agent.
Simon becomes interested in an oriental diplomat's pearl necklace.
Robin Hood thwarts the Duke de Moreville's plans to kill the Sheriff of Nottingham and take over Nottingham Shire.
Certain lords are maintaining a monopoly on essential goods: one such commodity is salt, and Lord Guthrie has formed an alliance with the Sheriff to hold back supplies.
Robin, keeping a rendezvous with four Knights with whom he fought in the Crusades, does not know he's walking into a trap hatched by the Sheriff.
