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Lady Molly of Scotland Yard

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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.

Contents

I. THE NINESCORE MYSTERY

II. THE FREWIN MINIATURES

III. THE IRISH-TWEED COAT

IV. THE FORDWYCH CASTLE MYSTERY

V. A DAY'S FOLLY

VI. A CASTLE IN BRITTANY

VII. A CHRISTMAS TRAGEDY

VIII. THE BAG OF SAND

IX. THE MAN IN THE INVERNESS CAPE

X. THE WOMAN IN THE BIG HAT

XI. SIR JEREMIAH'S WILL

XII. THE END

Works of Baroness Emmuska Orczy

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Table of Contents

List of Works by Genre and Title
List of Works in Alphabetical Order
List of Works in Chronological Order
Emma Orczy Biography

Short Stories / Collections of Detective Stories
Castles in the Air
Lady Molly of Scotland Yard
The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel
The Old Man in the Corner

Novels
The Bronze Eagle
Eldorado
The Elusive Pimpernel
The First Sir Percy
I will Repay
The Laughing Cavalier
Lord Tony's Wife
The Nest of the SparrowhawkThe Scarlet Pimpernel
The Triumph of the Scarlet Pimpernel
Unto Cæsar

Sir Percy Blakeney (Scarlet Pimpernel) Reading order

original dates of publication included.

01. The Scarlet Pimpernel (1905)
02. I will repay (1906)
03. The elusive Pimpernel (1908)
04. Eldorado (1913)
05. Lord Tony's wife (1917)
06. The league of the Scarlet Pimpernel (1919)
07. The way of the Scarlet Pimpernel (1933)
08. Sir Percy leads the band (1936)
09. Mam'zelle Guillotine (1940)
10. Sir Percy hits back (1927)
11. The triumph of the Scarlet Pimpernel (1922)
12. Adventures of the Scarlet Pimpernel (SSC) (1929)

Sir Percy also appears as the storyteller in: Child of the revolution
Fiction: Vaguely related Pimpernel books:
The first Sir Percy (set in Holland)
The laughing cavalier (set in Holland)
Pimpernel and Rosemary (set in Hungary)
Fiction: Detective:
Old man in the corner
Case of Miss Elliott
Lady Molly of Scotland Yard
Castles in the air
Skin o' my tooth
Unravelled knots

The Scarlet Pimpernel

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The Scarlet Pimpernel is the original masked hero adventure story. During the French Revolution a secret society of English gentlemen is formed by the enigmatic Scarlet Pimpernel, to rescue their fellow French nobility. Marguerite's brother is threatened by a Frenchman, who demands information on the Scarlet Pimpernel in return for her brother's safety. Marguerite makes the exchange only to discover that her boring fop of a husband is the Pimpernel himself! She follows him to France and so each proves themselves to the other what they really are.