Baroness Orczy Books In Order

Sir Percy Blakeney (Scarlet Pimpernel) Books In Publication Order

  1. The Scarlet Pimpernel (1905)
  2. I Will Repay (1906)
  3. The Elusive Pimpernel (1908)
  4. El Dorado (1913)
  5. The Laughing Cavalier (1914)
  6. Lord Tony’s Wife (1916)
  7. The League Of The Scarlet Pimpernel (1919)
  8. The First Sir Percy (1921)
  9. The Triumph Of The Scarlet Pimpernel (1922)
  10. Pimpernel and Rosemary (1924)
  11. Sir Percy Hits Back (1927)
  12. The Adventures Of The Scarlet Pimpernel (1929)
  13. In the Rue Monge (1931)
  14. A Child of the Revolution (1932)
  15. The Way Of The Scarlet Pimpernel (1933)
  16. The Scarlet Pimpernel Looks at the World (1933)
  17. Sir Percy Leads The Band (1936)
  18. Mam’zelle Guillotine (1940)

Sir Percy Blakeney (Scarlet Pimpernel) Books In Chronological Order

  1. The Laughing Cavalier (1914)
  2. The First Sir Percy (1921)
  3. The Scarlet Pimpernel (1905)
  4. Sir Percy Leads The Band (1936)
  5. The League Of The Scarlet Pimpernel (1919)
  6. I Will Repay (1906)
  7. The Elusive Pimpernel (1908)
  8. The Way Of The Scarlet Pimpernel (1933)
  9. Lord Tony’s Wife (1916)
  10. El Dorado (1913)
  11. Mam’zelle Guillotine (1940)
  12. The Triumph Of The Scarlet Pimpernel (1922)
  13. Sir Percy Hits Back (1927)
  14. The Adventures Of The Scarlet Pimpernel (1929)
  15. A Child of the Revolution (1932)
  16. In the Rue Monge (1931)
  17. Pimpernel and Rosemary (1924)
  18. The Scarlet Pimpernel Looks at the World (1933)

Teahouse Detective Books In Publication Order

  1. The Case of Miss Elliott (1905)
  2. The Old Man in the Corner (1908)
  3. Unravelled Knots (1926)

Standalone Novels In Publication Order

  1. The Emperor’s Candlesticks (1899)
  2. Petticoat Rule (1910)
  3. Petticoat Government (1910)
  4. The Nest of the Sparrowhawk (1911)
  5. A True Woman/The Heart of a Woman (1911)
  6. Meadowsweet (1912)
  7. The Laughing Cavalier (1914)
  8. Leatherface (1916)
  9. The Man In Grey (1918)
  10. Pimpernel and Rosemary (1924)
  11. The Celestial City (1926)
  12. Blue Eyes and Gray (1929)
  13. In the Rue Monge (1931)
  14. Marivosa (1931)
  15. A Spy of Napoleon (1934)
  16. The uncrowned King (1935)
  17. The divine folly (1938)
  18. Pride of Race (1942)
  19. Will O’ The Wisp (1947)
  20. The Duffield Peerage Case (2004)
  21. Fenchurch Street Mystery (2004)
  22. The York Mystery (2004)

Short Story Collections In Publication Order

  1. Lady Molly Of Scotland Yard (1910)
  2. Castles in the Air (1921)

Non-Fiction Books In Publication Order

  1. Links in the chain of life (2020)

Anthologies In Publication Order

  1. Rivals of Sherlock Holmes (1979)
  2. Rivals of Sherlock Holmes 2 (1979)

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Baroness Orczy Books Overview

The Scarlet Pimpernel

The Scarlet Pimpernel, by Baroness Orczy, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics: All editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. Barnes & Noble Classics pulls together a constellation of influences biographical, historical, and literary to enrich each reader’s understanding of these enduring works. In the year 1792, Sir Percy and Lady Marguerite Blakeney are the darlings of British society he is known as one of the wealthiest men in England and a dimwit;she is French, a stunning former actress, and the cleverest woman in Europe and they find themselves at the center of a deadly political intrigue. The Reign of Terror controls France, and every day aristocrats in Paris fall victim to Madame la Guillotine. Only one man can rescue them The Scarlet Pimpernel a master of disguises who leaves a calling card bearing only a signature red flower. As the fascinating connection between the Blakeneys and this mysterious hero is revealed, they are forced to choose between love and loyalty in order to avoid the French agent Chauvelin, who relentlessly hunts The Scarlet Pimpernel. First published in 1905, The Scarlet Pimpernel is the best known novel by Baroness Emmuska Orczy, a prolific author of popular fiction and plays. The novel pioneered the tale of the masked avenger and paved the way for such future enigmatic swashbucklers as Zorro, Superman, and the Lone Ranger. Repeatedly adapted for stage and screen most recently as a successful Broadway musical The Scarlet Pimpernel is a relevant and enormously entertaining tale of survival and pluck during times of widespread fear, hypocrisy, and corruption. Includes 8 pieces of original art. Sarah Juliette Sasson is a lecturer in the Department of French and Romance Philology at Columbia University and is the managing editor of the Romanic Review, a journal devoted to romance literatures. She holds a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Columbia. She specializes in nineteenth century literature and particularly in the novel. She has published essays on Honor de Balzac, Heinrich Heine, and on social mobility in nineteenth century literature. Currently, she is working on a book on Balzac.

I Will Repay

Baroness, Emusca/Emmuska/Emma Magdalena Rosalia Marie Josepha Barbara Orczy, Mrs Barstow 1865 1947 was a British novelist, playwright and artist of Hungarian origin. She was most notable for her series of novels featuring the Scarlet Pimpernel. Some of her paintings were exhibited at the Royal Academy in London. Her parents left Hungary in 1868, fearful of the threat of a peasant revolution. They lived in Budapest, Brussels, and Paris, where Emma studied music without success. Finally, in 1880, the family moved to London where they lodged with their countryman Francis Pichler. In 1903, she and her husband, Montague MaClean Barstow, wrote a play based on one of her short stories about an English aristocrat, Sir Percy Blakeney, Bart., who rescued French aristocrats from the French revolution: The Scarlet Pimpernel. She went on to write over a dozen sequels featuring Sir Percy Blakeney, his family, and the other members of the League of the Scarlet Pimpernel, of which the first, I Will Repay 1906, was the most popular. The last Pimpernel book, Mam’zelle Guillotine, was published in 1940. She also wrote popular mystery fiction and many adventure romances.

The Elusive Pimpernel

PARIS: 1793 THERE was not even a reaction. On 1 ever on I in tha t wild, surging torren t ; sowing the wind of anarchy, of terrorism, of lust of hlood and hate, and reaping a hurricane of destruction and of horror. On! ever on! France, witb Paris and all her children still rushes blindly, madly on; defies the powerful coalition, Austria, England, Spain, Prussia, all joined together to stem the flow of carnage, defies the Universe and defies God! ‘ Paris this September, 1793 ! or shall we call it Vend mlaire, Year I of the Republic? Call it what we willI Paris! a city of bloodshed; of humanity in its lowest, most degraded, aspect, France herself a gigantic !Self devouring monster, ber fairest cities destroyod, Lyons razed to the ground, Toulon, Mar seilles, mas*ses of blackened ruins, her bravest sons turned to lustful brutes or to abject cowards seeking safety at the cost of any humiliation. That is thy reward, 0 mighty, holy ReAbout the Publisher Forgotten Books is a publisher of historical writings, such as: Philosophy, Classics, Science, Religion, History, Folklore and Mythology. Forgotten Books’ Classic Reprint Series utilizes the latest technology to regenerate facsimiles of historically important writings. Careful attention has been made to accurately preserve the original format of each page whilst digitally enhancing the difficult to read text. Read books online for free at http://www. forgottenbooks. org

El Dorado

In Paris, that city of poets and soldiers, the blood stained walls still echo with cries of horror from the massacres of the Revolution. And now a new threat hangs over the great city: for the Committee of General Security has just acquired full powers to invade private homes, to act at will against the ‘enemies of public welfare’ and to interrogate them without witnesses. This new law, Robespierre’s latest whim, is no less than a ruse to ‘beat up game’ for the thirsty guillotine!

News soon reaches the ears of that champion of the helpless and the innocent, the mysterious and ingenious Englishman known in France only as…
the Scarlet Pimpernel.

English novelist and playwright Baroness Emmuska Orczy 1865 1947 achieved enduring success with her novels of politics, intrigue and underground resistance, including El Dorado, set during the French Revolution.

The Laughing Cavalier

Baroness, Emusca/Emmuska/Emma Magdalena Rosalia Marie Josepha Barbara Orczy, Mrs Barstow 1865 1947 was a British novelist, playwright and artist of Hungarian origin. She was most notable for her series of novels featuring the Scarlet Pimpernel. Some of her paintings were exhibited at the Royal Academy in London. Her parents left Hungary in 1868, fearful of the threat of a peasant revolution. They lived in Budapest, Brussels, and Paris, where Emma studied music without success. Finally, in 1880, the family moved to London where they lodged with their countryman Francis Pichler. In 1903, she and her husband, Montague MaClean Barstow, wrote a play based on one of her short stories about an English aristocrat, Sir Percy Blakeney, Bart., who rescued French aristocrats from the French revolution: The Scarlet Pimpernel. She went on to write over a dozen sequels featuring Sir Percy Blakeney, his family, and the other members of the League of the Scarlet Pimpernel, of which the first, I Will Repay 1906, was the most popular. The last Pimpernel book, Mam’zelle Guillotine, was published in 1940. She also wrote popular mystery fiction and many adventure romances.

Lord Tony’s Wife

This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book without typos from the publisher. 1917. Not illustrated. Excerpt:…
BOOK TWO: NANTES, DECEMBER, 1793 CHAPTER I THE TIGER S LAIR Nante’s is in the grip of the tiger. Representative Carrier with powers as of a proconsul has been sent down to stamp out the lingering remnants of the counter revolution. La Vendee is temporarily subdued; the army of the royalists driven back across the Loire; but traitors still abound this the National Convention in Paris hath decreed there are traitors everywhere. They were not all massacred at Cholet and Savenay. Disbanded, yes! but not exterminated, and wolves must not be allowed to run loose, lest they band again, and try to devour the flocks. Therefore extermination is the order of the day. Every traitor or would be traitor every son and daughter and father and mother of traitors must be destroyed ere they do more mischief. And Carrier Carrier the coward who turned tail and bolted at Cholet is sent to Nantes to carry on the work of destruction. Wolves and wolflings all! Let none survive. Give them fair trial, of course. As traitors they have deserved death have they not taken up ams against the Republic and against the Will and the Reign of the People? But let a court of justice sit in Nantes town; let the whole nation know how traitors are dealt with: let the nation see that her rulers are both wise and just. Let wolves and wolflings be brought up for trial, and set up the guillotine on Place du Bouffay with four executioners appointed to do her work. There would be too much work for two, or even three. Let there be four and let the work of extermination be complete. And Carrier with powers as of a proconsul arrives in Nantes town and sets to work to organise his household. Civil and military with pomp and circumstance for the son of a small farmer, destined originally for…

The League Of The Scarlet Pimpernel

Citizen Chauvelin, of the Committee of Public Safety, presents citizen Fouquier Tinville, the Public Prosecutor, with the most extraordinary claim: ‘The dangerous English spy known to the world as the Scarlet Pimpernel,’ he says, ‘is now safely under lock and key. He must be transferred to the Abbaye prison forthwith and to the guillotine as quickly as might be. No one is to take any risks this time. There must be no question either of discrediting his famous League, or of obtaining other more valuable information out of him. Such methods have proved disastrous!’ There are no safe Englishmen these days, except the dead ones and it will not take citizen Fouquier Tinville much thought or time to frame an indictment against the notorious Scarlet Pimpernel…
and that will do away with the necessity of a prolonged trial. The revolutionary government is at war with England now, and short work can be made of all poisonous spies! English novelist and playwright Baroness Emmuska Orczy 1865 1947 achieved enduring success with her novels of politics and intrigue set during the time of the French Revolution.

The First Sir Percy

Baroness, Emusca/Emmuska/Emma Magdalena Rosalia Marie Josepha Barbara Orczy, Mrs Barstow 1865 1947 was a British novelist, playwright and artist of Hungarian origin. She was most notable for her series of novels featuring the Scarlet Pimpernel. Some of her paintings were exhibited at the Royal Academy in London. Her parents left Hungary in 1868, fearful of the threat of a peasant revolution. They lived in Budapest, Brussels, and Paris, where Emma studied music without success. Finally, in 1880, the family moved to London where they lodged with their countryman Francis Pichler. In 1903, she and her husband, Montague MaClean Barstow, wrote a play based on one of her short stories about an English aristocrat, Sir Percy Blakeney, Bart., who rescued French aristocrats from the French revolution: The Scarlet Pimpernel. She went on to write over a dozen sequels featuring Sir Percy Blakeney, his family, and the other members of the League of the Scarlet Pimpernel, of which the first, I Will Repay 1906, was the most popular. The last Pimpernel book, Mam’zelle Guillotine, was published in 1940. She also wrote popular mystery fiction and many adventure romances.

The Triumph Of The Scarlet Pimpernel

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www. million books. com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III THE FELLOWSHIP OF GKIEF 1 IN the antechamber of Catherine Theot’s abode of mysteries some two hours later, half a dozen persons were sitting. The room was long, narrow and bare, its walls dank and colourless, and save for the rough wooden benches on which these persons sat, was void of any furniture. The benches were ranged against the walls; the one window at the end was shuttered so as to exclude all daylight, and from the ceiling there hung a broken down wrought iron chandelier, wherein a couple of lighted tallow candles were set, the smoke from which rose in irregular spirals upwards to the low and blackened ceiling. These persons who sat or sprawled upon the benches did not speak to one another. They appeared to be waiting. One or two of them were seemingly asleep; others, from time to time, would rouse themselves from their apathy, look with dim, inquiring eyes in the direction of a heavy portiere which hung in front of a door near the far end of the room, and would strain their ears to listen. This occurred every time that a cry, or a moan, or a sob came from behind the portiere. When this subsided again all those in the bare waiting room resumed their patient, lethargic attitude, and a silence weird and absolute reigned once more over them all. Now and then somebody would sigh, and at one time one of the sleepers snored. Far away a church clock struck six. A few minutes later, the portiere was lifted, and a girl came into the room. She held a shawl, very much the worse for wear, tightly wrapped around her meagre shoulders, and from beneath her rough woollen skirt her small feet appeared clad in well worn shoes and darned worsted stockings. Her hair, which was fair and soft, was partially hidden under a white muslin cap, and as she walked with a…

Sir Percy Hits Back

For young and pretty Fleurette the revolution seems far away until an aristocratic neighbouring family is threatened. Now, the dangers are all too real, and she is accused of being a traitor. Can her father save her? Fleurette’s father is ironically Armand Chauvelin. For the first time the villainous agent is forced to ask his arch enemy, the heroic Scarlet Pimpernel, for help.

The Adventures Of The Scarlet Pimpernel

The Scarlet Pimpernel takes numerous and dangerous trips to help rescue unfortunate and innocent people from the dreaded guillotine, whilst hiding behind the facade of the ‘brainless fop’, Sir Percy. This collection of short stories about the exploits of the Pimpernel is wonderfully entertaining, and transports the reader back to the French Revolution where clever disguises and narrow escapes abound!

A Child of the Revolution

The last book in the Scarlet Pimpernel series.

The Way Of The Scarlet Pimpernel

The year is 1793, the darkest days of the French revolution, and little Charles L on is ill. The delicate son of Louise and Bastien de Croissy is recommended country air, but travel permits are needed and impossible to come by. Louise’s friend, Josette, believes she knows a way out. For Josette is convinced that her hero, the Scarlet Pimpernel, will come to their rescue. She refuses to believe that he only exists in her imagination. ‘I say that the Scarlet Pimpernel can do anything! And I mean to get in touch with him,’ she vows, and sets forth into the Paris streets…

Sir Percy Leads The Band

Chronologically the fourth novel in the Scarlet Pimpernel series if one counts the two prequels, Sir Percy Leads The Band was first published in 1936. Set in 1793, the novel immediately follows the original Scarlet Pimpernel book.

Mam’zelle Guillotine

The author writes, ‘Three aristos who were being sent to Paris for trial were absolutely spirited away from under the very nose of the highly efficient police administration of the province. Spirited away! There was no other word for it! And the whole thing was obviously the work of those abominable English, who were emissaries of the devil, for no flesh and blood human creature could have engineered so damnable a trick and then disappeared as if the earth had swallowed them up.’ This publication from Boomer Books is specially designed and typeset for comfortable reading.

The Case of Miss Elliott

In the title story, a young matron from a convalescent home is found dead in a quiet Maida Vale street. The Daily Telegraph ran an article headed ‘Murder or Suicide?’ on the subject of the mysterious death. In The Hocussing of Cigarette an earl’s racehorse is the victim of attempted poisoning. Who Stole the Black Diamonds? concerns a mystery that bewilders police and diplomats across Europe. All of the twelve detective stories in this volume are puzzled over by Orczy’s mysterious armchair detective, the old man in the corner.

The Old Man in the Corner

The Old Man in the Corner 1908 introduces one of the mystery genre’s first armchair detectives, and he’s a peculiar case himself. He comes out of his corner on page one to intrude on a young woman journalist, Miss Burton of the Evening Observer, at her table in a tea shop. ‘There is no such thing as a mystery,’ the Old Man insists, no matter what people read in the penny press. To prove it, he sets about solving a number of crimes the police couldn’t. His deductions are based mostly on accounts in the news. The book’s inventive premise is the work of the Hungarian Baroness Emmuska Orczy, best known for her creation of The Scarlet Pimpernel. Her masked hero saved aristocrats, and she gives the Old Man a touch of the upper crust as well. He claims to be ‘only an amateur,’ but his disdain for the police is like the king to the commoner. He has a rich man’s or crazy man’s eccentricities. He admires a clever crook, and his nervous fingers tie elaborate knots in a piece of string while he mulls the clues. ‘Now, follow my reasoning point by point…
‘ he challenges Miss Burton, and off he goes to out smart the sharpest criminals in London all without leaving the table.

Petticoat Government

1911. Hungarian British novelist, best remembered as the author of The Scarlet Pimpernell. Baroness Orczy’s sequels to the novel were less successful. Petticoat Government begins: D’Aumont! Eh? D’Aumont! The voice, that of a man still in the prime of life, but already raucous in its tone, thickened through constant mirthless laughter, rendered querulous too from long vigils kept at the shrine of pleasure, rose above the incessant babble of women’s chatter, the din of silver, china and glas*ses passing to and fro.

The Nest of the Sparrowhawk

A DASTARDLY DECEPTION Lady Sue was young, lovely, fresh and due to inherit a vast fortune when she came of age. Sir Marmaduke was a Roundhead and supporter of Oliver Cromwell in the English Civil War. It is 1657. King Charles I’s head is long gone and Cromwell rules as Protector. From his manor in Kent, Sir Marmaduke proclaims allegiance to the Puritanical way of the Protectorate. But Sir Marmaduke’s noble words hide wicked plans. For Sir Marmaduke is none other than the ward of Lady Sue. And he means to have the tender lady for his wife…
and her fortune for his own. How? Why, by masquerading as the exiled Prince of Orleans, of course. And by murdering or at least disgracing Lady Sue’s other suitors, like handsome young Richard Lambert. Historical fiction at its richest and most fascinating by the author of The Scarlet Pimpernel.

Leatherface

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The Man In Grey

M. de Saint Trop ze had raised his aristocratic eyebrows, and tried to wither the audacious malapert with his scornful glance, but the little Man in Grey appeared quite unconscious of the enormity of his offence; he stood by as was his wont quietly and silently, his eyes fixed inquiringly on the pr fet, who was indeed hoping that the floor would open conveniently and swallow him up ere he was called upon to decide whether he should obey the orders of his official chief, or pay heed to the commands of the accredited agent of M. the Minister of Police.

Lady Molly Of Scotland Yard

Baroness, Emusca/Emmuska/Emma Magdalena Rosalia Marie Josepha Barbara Orczy, Mrs Barstow 1865 1947 was a British novelist, playwright and artist of Hungarian origin. She was most notable for her series of novels featuring the Scarlet Pimpernel. Some of her paintings were exhibited at the Royal Academy in London. Her parents left Hungary in 1868, fearful of the threat of a peasant revolution. They lived in Budapest, Brussels, and Paris, where Emma studied music without success. Finally, in 1880, the family moved to London where they lodged with their countryman Francis Pichler. In 1903, she and her husband, Montague MaClean Barstow, wrote a play based on one of her short stories about an English aristocrat, Sir Percy Blakeney, Bart., who rescued French aristocrats from the French revolution: The Scarlet Pimpernel. She went on to write over a dozen sequels featuring Sir Percy Blakeney, his family, and the other members of the League of the Scarlet Pimpernel, of which the first, I Will Repay 1906, was the most popular. The last Pimpernel book, Mam’zelle Guillotine, was published in 1940. She also wrote popular mystery fiction and many adventure romances.

Castles in the Air

Baroness, Emusca/Emmuska/Emma Magdalena Rosalia Marie Josepha Barbara Orczy, Mrs Barstow 1865 1947 was a British novelist, playwright and artist of Hungarian origin. She was most notable for her series of novels featuring the Scarlet Pimpernel. Some of her paintings were exhibited at the Royal Academy in London. Her parents left Hungary in 1868, fearful of the threat of a peasant revolution. They lived in Budapest, Brussels, and Paris, where Emma studied music without success. Finally, in 1880, the family moved to London where they lodged with their countryman Francis Pichler. In 1903, she and her husband, Montague MaClean Barstow, wrote a play based on one of her short stories about an English aristocrat, Sir Percy Blakeney, Bart., who rescued French aristocrats from the French revolution: The Scarlet Pimpernel. She went on to write over a dozen sequels featuring Sir Percy Blakeney, his family, and the other members of the League of the Scarlet Pimpernel, of which the first, I Will Repay 1906, was the most popular. The last Pimpernel book, Mam’zelle Guillotine, was published in 1940. She also wrote popular mystery fiction and many adventure romances.

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