Skin o’ My Tooth, aka Patrick Mulligan, was created by Baroness Emmuska Orczy, and appeared in several stories which were collected in Skin o’ My Tooth.Mulligan is an...

Old Hungarian Fairy Tales are edited and translated from the Hungarian by Baroness Orczy.

Pimpernel and Rosemary is a novel set after the First World War and features Peter Blakeney, a descendant of the Scarlet Pimpernel (Percy Blakeney).The action is mainly set...

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”...

First published in 1908, The Elusive Pimpernel is the third sequel to The Scarlet Pimpernel, though it is not chronologically the next story in the series.It is the early days of...

The Emperor’s Candlesticks was first published in 1899, shortly after the author had given birth to her only son. Orczy was the aristocratic daughter of a Hungarian composer...

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...

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...

Set in puritan Kent in 1657, the story focuses on the intrigues of Sir Marmaduke de Chevasse “as stiff a Roundhead as ever upheld my Lord Protector and his Puritanic...

When their mother died, Olive and Boadicea were sent to live with their mother’s sister, Caroline, and her husband Jasper Hemingford on Old Manor Farm. The farm is remote...