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Emma Orczy
The fourth novel in the venerable adventure series, The Elusive Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy, was first released in 1908.French Agent Chauvelin visits England in 1793 as an authorized agent of…
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The author of I Will Repay is Baroness Emmuska Orczy. Before the French revolution, in 1784, the narrative begins. Rich Paul Deroulede insulted the youthful Vicomte de Marny by referring…
The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel is a novel that follows the famous adventure story The Scarlet Pimpernel written by author Baroness Orczy. The range of characters that appear on…
agent, and a self-styled confidant of kings and emperors during the Napoleonic era. This is a collection of short stories about Ratichon's humorous antics while assisting folks at the top…
"Leatherface - A Tale Of Old Flanders," is a 1916 historical fiction by Baroness Orczy. Spain has sway over Flanders in 1572 with an absolute monarchy. People are held in…
The Scarlet Pimpernel series by Baroness Orczy includes the novel The Triumph of the Scarlet Pimpernel. The story begins in Paris in April 1794, when Theresia Cabarrus is betrothed to…
His Majesty's Well-Beloved is a fictional novel written by Hungarian, British writer Baroness Orczy. The plot revolves around the Time of the Merrie Monarch. The book is a collection of…
A 1913 adventure book by Baroness Orczy, The Laughing Cavalier centers on Percy Blakeney, a foreign adventurer and the ancestor of the Scarlet Pimpernel. The events of the story occur…
Flower O' the Lily is a novel written by Emmuska Orczy Baroness Orczy. This collection of ideas is a great work by Orczy where she attempts to compile many of…
The Man In Grey is a romantic melodrama novel written by Baroness Orczy. The story opens during a Rohan estate sale in London in 1943, a Wren and an RAF…
Baroness Orczy wrote The Nest of the Sparrowhawk: A Tale of the XVIIth Century. The plot opens with Sir Marmaduke de Chevasse, who is determined to acquiring Lady Sue's fortune…
Baroness Emmuska Orczy wrote a book titled ''Pimpernel and Rosemary'', which was first released in 1924. After the First World War, it takes place, and Peter Blakeney, a Scarlet Pimpernel…
The English government is looking for all of the traitorous Nobles who backed Bonnie Prince Charlie in the period after his tragic downfall, which is set in England. The main…
Two stories by the author Baroness Emma Orczy. The Man in Grey is set in Napoleonic France in 1809, and is comprised of nine inter-connected short stories about the mysterious…
A series of short stories by Baroness Orczy known as ""The Old Man in the Corner"" includes an unnamed armchair detective. He studies and solves murders while talking with a…
Armed with only his wits and his cunning, one man recklessly defies the French revolutionaries and rescues scores of innocent men, women, and children from the deadly guillotine.
His friends…
This sequel novel, set in January and February 1793, follows on from The Scarlet Pimpernel . The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel has disguised themselves as a group of shabby…
Eldorado is a continuation book to The Scarlet Pimpernel, first published in 1913. The plot starts in 1794, Sir Percy consents to take Armand St Just, brother of his wife…
Baroness Emma Orczy
French Spymaster Chauvelin’s schemes leave Sir Percy’s wife Marguerite a prisoner, and Blakeney forced to meet his arch-enemy in Boulogne, surrounded by enemies. Must they both, at last, face Robespierre…
The last book in the Scarlet Pimpernel series.
A classic tale of intrigue, bravery and devotion set amidst the chaos and brutality of Revolutionary France. An unknown English aristocrat plays a deadly game of cat-and-mouse to save the…
Sir Percy Blakeney - the ‘Scarlet Pimpernel’ - hides his cool courage in rescuing as many victims as he can from the French Revolution’s fearful guillotine by acting the hare-brained…
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A detective story from the author of The Scarlet Pimpernel.
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Set during the Reign of Terror following the start of the French Revolution. Sir Percy Blakeney, a wealthy English fop who transforms into a formidable swordsman and a quick-thinking escape…
