Baroness Orczy: 136 books

A brilliant study in the art of logical deduction by the author of The Scarlet Pimpernel He sits in the corner of the A.B.C. café, a length of string in his fingers. As the afternoon winds down, he ties and unties intricate knots—in the string and in his mind. No one in the café knows his...

My name is Ratichon--Hector Ratichon, at your service, and I make so bold as to say that not even my worst enemy would think of minimizing the value of my services to the State. For twenty years now have I placed my powers at the disposal of my country: I have served the Republic, and was confidential...

A nameless old man sits in the corner of a cozy London tea shop, and without leaving his seat, solves baffling crimes reported to him by an admiring lady journalist. Using only methods of pure deduction, the eccentric, self-assured sleuth unravels the mysteries behind a wide range of criminal acts--from...

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The year is 1793, the darkest days of the French revolution, and little Charles-Leon 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...

HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. “Vaguely she began to wonder … which of these worldly men round her was the mysterious ‘Scarlet Pimpernel,’ who held the threads of such daring plots, and the fate of valuable lives in his hands.” In...

Set in Holland in 1624, First Sir Percy is another adventure featuring Sir Percy Blake, a foreign adventurer and ancestor of the Scarlet Pimpernel who goes by the name Diogenes.

About the gallant English hero, the Scarlet Pimpernel, and his League. Set in revolutionary France in 1793, these adventures will thrill the first time reader as much as those who are familiar with the Pimpernel and the League. Their arch enemy Chauvelin and the Committee of Public Safety are never far behind, whilst back in England the beautiful Marguerite maintains her devotion.

Beautiful for situation, the joy of the whole earth, is Mount Zion...."PSALM XLVIII. 2. And it came to pass in Rome after the kalends of September, and when Caius Julius Caesar Caligula ruled over Imperial Rome.Arminius Quirinius, the censor, was dead. He had died by his own hand, and thus was a life...

In 1792, while aristocrats were being mowed down in France by the guillotine, a courageous Englishman hid his identity under the guise of "The Scarlet Pimpernel," and led a band of twenty noblemen in an attempt to save as many of the French aristocracy as possible.

Mark and Hugh are school friends. Mark has visited Hugh’s house, whose father is an archaeologist and Egyptologist and where there is an odd museum, complete with mummies. One day, Mark receives word from his friend to 'Come at once if you can'. He finds Hugh has taken over his father’s work and...

Just think on it! Three aristocrats who were being sent to Paris for trial were kidnapped away from under the very nose of the highly efficient police. Spirited away! But who could have engineered so damnable a trick and then disappeared as if the earth had swallowed them up? This is also the story...

This story is set in rural Hungary, and much of it is spent describing the Hungarian landscape, customs and dress. The story is about a peasant girl who promises herself to a peasant boy on the eve of his leaving for military service. He is detained from returning and reported dead, so her poor but...

This story takes place during the occupation of Netherlands in 1570s by Spain and describes the battle for Ghent. There is of course the important love story but the whole is very well written.