Baroness Orczy
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In Baroness Emma Orczy's 1905 novel "The Scarlet Pimpernel", the year is 1792 and the French Revolution is complete. People die by the guillotine every day, often unjustly. Stepping in to right these wrongs and rescue the innocent is the elusive "Scarlet Pimpernel", a mysterious agent named for the red flower that is his signature. Meanwhile, foppish Sir Percy Blakeney and his French actress wife Marguerite are having marital difficulties when Marguerite...
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Scarlet Pimpernel series volume 7
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"We seek him here! we seek him there!
Those Frenchies seek him everywhere!
Is he in heaven? Is he in hell?
That demmed elusive Pimpernel?"
Sir Percy thought he left his enemy vanquished, humiliated, and debased in Calais.
Oh, how foolish he was.
Now Chauvelin is bent on revenge.
As punishment for letting the Scarlet Pimpernel escape the clutches of the French Republic, Chauvelin was demoted from the ranks of Robspierre's trusted...
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Following the events of The Scarlet Pimpernel, the mysterious figure continues his efforts to elude captors, while saving French aristocrats from meeting a brutal fate. It's a collection of memorable stories featuring various characters and hidden obstacles along the way.
The Reign of Terror during the French Revolution continues to cripple the country's aristocracy. The Scarlet Pimpernel has managed to maintain his secret identity, while saving...
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At a local teashop, a lady journalist encounters a brilliant detective who's able to decode and solve some of the city's most complicated crimes. This is a thrilling narrative, that hinges on the unique dynamic between its two protagonists.
Polly Burton is a young journalist who stumbles across an elderly man at a London teashop. She soon discovers his peculiar personality and dazzling intellect. Through a series of conversations, they discuss...
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"Lady Molly of Scotland Yard" contains a wonderful collection of short stories by Baroness Orczy that centre around Molly Robertson-Kirk, a quick-witted detective who relies on brains rather than brawn to get to the bottom of mysteries that completely elude her male counterparts. Highly recommended for fans of classic detective fiction and other works by this seminal author. Baroness Emma Orczy (1865–1947), more commonly known as Baroness Orczy,...
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El Dorado, by Baroness Orczy is a sequel book to the classic adventure tale, The Scarlet Pimpernel.
As well as containing all the main characters from the first book, Eldorado introduces several new characters and features the Baron de Batz, who also turns up in Sir Percy Leads the Band and The Way of the Scarlet Pimpernel (Baron Jean de Batz is a genuine historical figure). It is 1794 and Paris, "despite the horrors that had stained her walls -...
7) I Will Repay
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I Will Repay was written by Baroness Emmuska Orczy and originally published in 1906, this is a sequel novel to the Scarlet Pimpernel. The second Pimpernel book written by Orczy, it comes chronologically third in the series, after Sir Percy Leads the Band and before The Elusive Pimpernel. The story starts in 1784, before the French revolution. Wealthy Paul Déroulède has offended the young Vicomte de Marny by speaking disrespectfully of his latest...
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After Sir Marmaduke de Chevasse sets his sights on the young Lady Sue, his efforts are thwarted by the arrival of the dashing Richard Lambert. The impending pair become the focal point of the elder's money-grubbing scheme.
Set in the seventeenth century, The Nest of the Sparrowhawk follows the events within a small Puritan community. One of its members, Sir Marmaduke de Chevasse, is captivated by the young ward, Lady Sue. She is beautiful, charming...
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A young couple falls on hard times when the man is accused of murdering his cousin after he makes a claim on their uncle's fortune. Together, they must uncover the truth to save their relationship and repair his name.
Louise Harris is a bright and beautiful young woman. She's being courted by Luke de Mountford, the purported heir to his uncle's fortune. While the couple plans to marry, their future is threated by the arrival of Philip de Mountford,...
10) El Dorado
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Sir Percy Blakeney returns in the swashbuckling sequel to the classic novel, The Scarlet Pimpernel, as the French Revolution rages and danger abounds.
Despite the brutality that scarred the city during the early days of the Revolution, Paris has proved resilient with curtains rising on theatrical performances and residents seeking escape in make believe. But the new Republic's rule of bloodshed and terror continues unabated.
Rarely out...
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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...
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The Man in Grey by Baroness Orczy, author of The Scarlet Pimpernel, was first published in 1918. This time Orczy sets the action in post-revolutionary France. The book takes the form of a novel but is divided up into nine inter-connected short stories about the mysterious Man in Grey's adventures in tracking down Royalist criminals for the Government.
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Excerpt: "AN EPISODE IN THE LIFE OF MR.THOMAS BETTERTON AS TOLD BY HIS FRIEND JOHN HONEYWOOD. May it please you that I, an humble Clerk and Scrivener, do venture to address so talented a Lady; but there is that upon my Conscience which compels me to write these lines. The Goodness and Charity of Mistress Saunderson are well known, and 'tis not as a Suppliant that I crave pardon for my Presumption, but rather as one whose fidelity and loyalty have...
14) Skin o' My Tooth
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Twelve classic mystery tales featuring an unconventional sleuth from the author of The Scarlet Pimpernel.
Lawyer and amateur detective Patrick Mulligan is not exactly popular. His colleagues don't care for him, and he has few friends. He does, however, have plenty of clients. Mulligan is always willing to do whatever it takes to get them off the hook and away from the gallows. If that means solving the crimes himself, so be it . . . Originally...
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A Sheaf of Bluebells is a novel by Baroness Emma Orczy about the feuds between Royalists and the followers of Napoleon Bonaparte. Many French aristocrats exiled during the revolution have been presenting petitions to enable them to return to France under the conditional amnesty granted to them by the newly crowned Emperor. Amongst them are a petition signed by Mme.la Marquise de Mortain and her son, Laurent (aged twenty-one years), and one signed...
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The year is 1623, the place Haarlem in the Netherlands. Diogenes - the first Sir Percy Blakeney, the Scarlet Pimpernel's ancestor - and his friends Pythagoras and Socrates defend justice and the royalist cause. The famous artist Frans Hals also makes an appearance in this historical adventure. Orczy maintains that Hal's celebrated portrait of The Laughing Cavalier is actually a portrayal of the Scarlet Pimpernel's ancestor.
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Set in England, right after Bonnie Prince Charlie's sad failure, the English government is tracking down all of the treasonous Nobles who supported him. Beau Brocade, A beloved Robin Hood-esque character is a highway man by trade, but a gentleman at heart. (Goodreads)
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"The Classic Collection of Baroness Emmuska Orczy" presents a captivating array of novels and short stories from the esteemed author, highlighting her iconic tales of adventure, romance, and intrigue. At the forefront of this anthology is "The Scarlet Pimpernel," Orczy's timeless masterpiece that follows the exploits of Sir Percy Blakeney, a dashing English aristocrat who leads a secret double life as the elusive Scarlet Pimpernel. With cunning disguises...
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It is set after the First World War and features Peter Blakeney, a descendant of the Scarlet Pimpernel (Percy Blakeney). The action is mainly set amongst the disaffected Hungarian nobility in Transylvania, allowing Orczy to draw on her knowledge of Hungarian history and politics.
20) The Noble Rogue
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It is a fascinating novel by the author of Scarlet Pimpernel. The book is full of twisted lines, love stories, romantic courtship, and competition. It tells about a girl, married to a man from an early age, but falling in love with his cousin. This love story has a lot of unexpected turns and a good portion of subtle humor that makes the writings of Orczy so adorable. (Kobo)