The First Sir Percy

by Baroness Orczy

Overview

The story starts in 1624 in the Netherlands and concerns the Scarlet Pimpernel’s ancestor, Diogenes, aka the first Sir Percy Blakeney. Diogenes and his friends Socrates and Pythagoras swear allegiance to the royalist cause. Their undivided loyalty results in many adventures – and more than one foe.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780755116591
Publisher:	House of Stratus, Incorporated
Publication date:	01/12/2008
Series:	Scarlet Pimpernel Series , #7
Edition description:	New edition
Pages:	298
Product dimensions:	5.31(w) x 8.07(h) x 0.75(d)

About the Author

Baroness Orczy was born in Hungary in 1865, the daughter of Baron Felix Orczy, a landed aristocrat and well-known composer and conductor. Orczy moved with her parents from Budapest to Brussels and Paris, where she was educated. She studied art in London and exhibited work in the Royal Academy.

She married Montagu Barstow and together they worked as illustrators and jointly published an edition of Hungarian folk tales.

Orczy became famous in 1905 with the publication of The Scarlet Pimpernel (originally a play co-written with her husband). Its background was the French Revolution and its swashbuckling hero, Sir Percy Blakeney, was to prove immensely popular. Sequel books followed and film and TV versions were later made.

Orczy also wrote detective stories which still prove popular and are equally acclaimed within this genre.

She died in 1947.

Table of Contents

1	A Night on the Veluwe	1
2	The Double Wedding	29
3	The Great Interruption	58
4	Adder's Fork	82
5	A Race for Life	94
6	A Nest of Scorpions	100
7	A Subtle Traitor	122
8	Devil's-writ	133
9	Mala Fides	150
10	A Prince of Darkness	170
11	The Danger-spoke	191
12	Tears, Sighs, Hearts	205
13	The Stygian Creek	215
14	Treachery	225
15	The Molen on the Veluwe	259
16	The Final Issue	280
17	The Only World	288