Emmuska Orczy Baroness Orczy: 59 books

“Warned by an anonymous friend of the imminence of arrest on a trumped-up charge of treason, Monsieur le Marquis de Marillac de la Villorée on one evening seven years ago packed hastily together a few necessities, and at dead of night was luckily able to make the coast and there embark on an English...

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by CLASSIC COLLECTION 600.*** Synopsis: The elusive Pimpernel returns for another swashbuckling adventure in El Dorado. The still-raging French Revolution continues to claim lives, and the shadow of the guillotine draws ever nearer to the...

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

The League is up to their old tricks again, but this time they have the help of a local simple girl from the country, Fleurette. When she and her love fall into danger for her help, the League decides these two innocents must be rescued as well. But matters are complicated when the Pimpernel discovers...

The Man in Grey is set in Napoleonic France in 1809, and is comprised of nine inter-connected short stories about the mysterious Man in Grey’s adventures in tracking down Royalist criminals for the government.

By the Gods Beloved was first published in Britain in 1905 and was later released in America under the title The Gates of Kamt. 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....

If you thought the Pimpernel had it rough with Chauvelin on his trail, try adding Citizens Robespierre, Couthon, Louis Antoine St. Just, and the beautiful Theresia Cabarrus, fiancée of Tallien. Robespierre becomes paranoid about the Pimpernel and must have him destroyed. Theresia is sent to seduce...

Armand St Just, his beautiful sister Marguerite and her husband Sir Percy Blakeney are once again caught up in the turmoil of revolutionary France. And adventurer Baron de Batz enters the story. It is 1794 and Paris, “despite the horrors that had stained her walls – had remained a city of pleasure,...

A nameless, eccentric old man, sitting in the corner of a cozy London tea shop, uses pure deduction to solve a series of baffling crimes — from gruesome murders and cases of deadly blackmail, to daring thefts and brilliant deceptions. For devotees of Sherlock Holmes —ingenious, well-crafted twelve...

Beau Brocade is a historical novel set in England during the reign of King George II that centers around the title character who is similar to Robin Hood. The novel centres on the eponymous Beau Brocade, who is a former member of the Royal Dragoons and has been dismissed from his position due to a...

A story of the French aristocracy, the book concerns Madame de Pompadour’s influence over the King and France. In US published under the title Petticoat Rule.

In the presentation of this serious enterprise for the criticism and official sanction of The Academy, 'en seance', was included a request that, if possible, the task of writing a preface to the series should be undertaken by me. Official sanction having been bestowed upon the plan, I, as the accredited...

The collection of short stories featuring Sir Percy Blakeney, The Scarlet Pimpernel. Set in revolutionary France in 1793, these further 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...

During one return home, Sir Percy tells the story of André Vallon, a young Jacobin, to the Prince of Wales. André, wishing to revenge himself on a despotic seigneur, uses the Jacobins’ rise to force the seigneur’s daughter to marry him. Once wed, they come to love each other, only to have the...