Baroness Emmuska Orczy

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  • Bibliography:
    49 Books (2 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 1899
  • Latest Book:
    July 2022
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Full Series List in Order

The Scarlet Pimpernel - Chronological

0.4 - The Laughing Cavalier (Jan-1914)
0.5 - The First Sir Percy (Jan-1921)
1 - The Scarlet Pimpernel (Jan-1905)
2 - Sir Percy Leads the Band (Jan-1936)
2.5 - The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel (Jan-1919)
3 - I Will Repay (Jan-1906)
4 - The Elusive Pimpernel (Jan-1908)
5 - Lord Tony's Wife (Jan-1916)
6 - The Way of the Scarlet Pimpernel (Jan-1933)
7 - El Dorado (Jan-1913)
8 - Mam'zelle Guillotine (Jan-1940)
9 - Sir Percy Hits Back (Jan-1927)
9.5 - The Adventures of the Scarlet Pimpernel: Novellas (Aug-2001)
10 - The Triumph of the Scarlet Pimpernel (Jan-1922)
11 - A Child of the Revolution (Jan-1932)
11.5 - In the Rue Monge: A Short Story (Jan-1931)
11.7 - Pimpernel and Rosemary (Jan-1924)
11.8 - The Scarlet Pimpernel Looks at the World (Jan-1933)

Teahouse Detective

1 - Baroness Orczy's Old Man in the Corner: The Old Man in the Corner, the Case of Miss Elliott, the Glasgow Mystery (Jun-1908)
2 - The Case of Miss Elliott (Jun-1905)
3 - Unravelled Knots (Jun-2021)

Book List in Order: 49 titles

  • The Emperor's Candlesticks

    The Emperor's Candlesticks is an 1899 historical novel by Baroness Orczy. Written soon after the birth of her son John, it is her first book as an author rather than translator and was a commercial failure. As in the Scarlet Pimpernel, the theme is i...

  • By the Gods Beloved

    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...

  • The Gates Of Kamt

    Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and...

  • The Scarlet Pimpernel

    The Scarlet Pimpernel - Chronological - 1

    "WHO IS THIS MAN THIS SCARLET PIMPERNEL?" Each day this question grew more pressing to the tillers of the French Revolution. Only this man and his band of followers threatened their total power. Only this maddeningly elusive figure defied the vast...

  • The Case of Miss Elliott

    Teahouse Detective - 2

    A classic collection of mysteries from the Golden Age of British crime writing, by the author of The Scarlet Pimpernel.Mysteries! There is no such thing as a mystery in connection with any crime, provided intelligence is brought to bear upon its inve...

  • I Will Repay

    The Scarlet Pimpernel - Chronological - 3

    It is Paris, 1793, the most seething time of the revolution. No one knew in the morning if his head would still be on his shoulders in the evening, or if it would be held up by citizen Samson the headsman, for the sans-culottes of Paris to see. Howev...

  • Beau Brocade

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    There were no women present fortunately: there had been heavy rains on the Moor these last three days, and what roads there were had become well-nigh impassable. Only a few men--some half-dozen, perhaps--out of the lonely homesteads from down Brassin...

  • The Elusive Pimpernel

    The Scarlet Pimpernel - Chronological - 4

    Spy-catcher Chauvelin travels to England to find Sir Percy Blakeney, the Scarlet Pimpernel, and take him back to France where he’ll be put to death. With help from a struggling actress, Chauvelin attempts to bring the hero to justice.Sir Percy Blak...

  • The Old Man in the Corner

    At a local tea shop, a lady journalist encounters a brilliant detective who’s able to decode and solve some of the city’s most complicated crimes. This is a thrilling narrative that hinges on the unique dynamic between its two protagonists. Polly...



  • Baroness Orczy's Old Man in the Corner: The Old Man in the Corner, the Case of Miss Elliott, the Glasgow Mystery

    Teahouse Detective - 1

    Baroness Emma Orczy, best known for her Scarlet Pimpernel stories, also wrote popular detective stories. This volume includes her two books, The Old Man in the Corner and The Case of Miss Elliott, both of which relate the logical theorizing of the an...

  • The Nest of the Sparrowhawk

    After Sir Marmaduke de Chevasse sets his sights on the young Lady Sue, his efforts are thwarted by the arrival of the dashing Richard Lambert. The impending pair become the focal point of the elder’s money-grubbing scheme.Set in the seventeenth cen...

  • Petticoat Government

  • Lady Molly of Scotland Yard

    Mystery readers and fans of detective fiction and the police procedural are in for a real treat with these twelve interlaced stoires featuring Lady Molly, head of the Female Department at Scotland Yard in and around 1910. Lady Molly is an ace sleuth ...

  • Petticoat Rule

    Popular novel, first published in 1910. According to Wikipedia: "Baroness Emma Magdolna Rozália Mária Jozefa Borbála "Emmuska" Orczy de Orczi (23 September 1865 â€" 12 November 1947) was a British novelist, playwright and artist of Hungarian nobl...

  • The Heart Of A Woman

    A young couple falls on hard times when the man is accused of murdering his cousin after he makes a claim on their uncle’s fortune. Together, they must uncover the truth to save their relationship and repair his name. Louise Harris is a bright and ...

  • Meadowsweet

    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 with few neighbours and while Aunt Caroline would have made a wonderful mothe...

  • El Dorado

    The Scarlet Pimpernel - Chronological - 7

    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 stai...

  • The Laughing Cavalier

    The Scarlet Pimpernel - Chronological - 0.4

    Percy Blake, the forefather of the Scarlet Pimpernel, is hired to kidnap a young woman with sensitive information regarding the potential assassination of a prince. It’s a complex family drama that ties into a mystery surrounding an artist’s most...

  • A Bride Of The Plains

    A BRIDE OF THE PLAINS....IS A A GOOD HISTORICAL ROMANCE NOVEL. THE SCENE IS SET IN HUNGARY AND IN THE VILLAGE CLOSE TO THE MAROS...HERE WE FIND A GOOD WHOLESOME OLD FASHIONED ROMANCE!• This volume includes a “Detailed Biography”...



  • The Bronze Eagle

    Written by Baroness Orczy and first published in 1915, The Bronze Eagle:A Story of the Hundred Days, is a romance set in France following the period of the Revolution and the expulsion of the Bourbons. Its central plot lies in the intrigues of their ...

  • Leatherface; A Tale Of Old Flanders

    It lacked two hours before the dawn on this sultry night early in September. The crescent moon had long ago sunk behind a bank of clouds in the west, and not a sound stirred the low-lying land around the besieged city. To the south the bivouac fires ...

  • Lord Tony's Wife

    The Scarlet Pimpernel - Chronological - 5

    An aristocrat and his daughter are targeted by a former peasant who hides his true identity to ingratiate himself into the world of French royalists. After gaining their trust, he attempts to marry the girl, but she’s already eloped with another.Pi...

  • The Man in Grey

    Nine connected episodes about a strange and elusive personality known in the reign of the first Napoleon as the "Man in grey," who by his clever work brought to justice many of the reckless crimmals of the Chouan conspiracies in Normandy. Mys...

  • His Majesty's Well-Beloved

    From Mr. John Honeywood, clerk to Mr. Theophilus Baggs, attorney-at-law, to Mistress Mary Saunderson, of the Duke's Theatre in Lincoln's Inn Fields. 1662. October the 10th at 85, Chancery Lane in the City of London. Honoured Mistress, -- May it plea...

  • The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel

    The Scarlet Pimpernel - Chronological - 2.5

    Following the events of The Scarlet Pimpernel, the mysterious figure continues his efforts to elude captors, while saving French aristocrats from meeting a brutal fate. It’s a collection of memorable stories featuring various characters and hidden ...

  • Castles in the Air

    Baroness Orczy was a Hungarian who moved to London. She became a novelist, painter, and playwright. Orcy's book the Scarlet Pimpernel is her best-known work. Hector Ratichon. "Heureux le peuple qui n'a pas d'histoire" is described by Orczy as follows...

  • The First Sir Percy

    The Scarlet Pimpernel - Chronological - 0.5

    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 ...

  • The Triumph of the Scarlet Pimpernel

    The Scarlet Pimpernel - Chronological - 10

    The Triumph of the Scarlet Pimpernel, first published in 1922, is the last book about the Scarlet Pimpernel's adventures, in the popular series by Baroness Orczy. Again Orczy skillfully interweaves historic fact with fiction, this time through the re...

  • Pimpernel and Rosemary

    The Scarlet Pimpernel - Chronological - 11.7

    This story takes place three generations after Sir Percy, and is similar in many ways to "The Scarlet Pimpernel" with its intrigue, romance and twists and turns in the plot. However, it is different enough to surprise and delight the reader. It is a ...



  • Sir Percy Hits Back

    The Scarlet Pimpernel - Chronological - 9

    For young and pretty Fleurette the revolution seems far away, until an aristocratic neighbouring family is threatened. Now, the dangers are all too real, and she is also accused of being a traitor. Can her father save her? Fleurette’s father is â€"...

  • In the Rue Monge: A Short Story

    The Scarlet Pimpernel - Chronological - 11.5

    In the Rue Monge, was written by Baroness Emmuska Orczy (author of the Scarlet Pimpernel series). This short story is about a scientist arrested by revolutionaries during the French Revolution and about to be executed as an enemy of the French go...

  • A Child of the Revolution

    The Scarlet Pimpernel - Chronological - 11

  • The Scarlet Pimpernel Looks at the World

    The Scarlet Pimpernel - Chronological - 11.8

  • The Way of the Scarlet Pimpernel

    The Scarlet Pimpernel - Chronological - 6

    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 â€" and impossible to come by. Louise’s friend,...

  • Sir Percy Leads the Band

    The Scarlet Pimpernel - Chronological - 2

    Sir Percy leads a band of musicians and the disguise enables him to listen in to conversations as revolutionaries lay their plans. It even becomes possible to outwit Citizen Chauvelin, who arrives on the scene. Treachery from within the band forces T...

  • Mam'zelle Guillotine

    The Scarlet Pimpernel - Chronological - 8

    The author writes, "Three aristos who were being sent to Paris for trial were absolutely spirited away from under the very nose of the highly efficient police administration of the province. Spirited away! There was no other word for it! And the whol...

  • The Adventures of the Scarlet Pimpernel: Novellas

    The Scarlet Pimpernel - Chronological - 9.5

    The Scarlet Pimpernel takes numerous and dangerous trips to help rescue unfortunate and innocent people from the dreaded guillotine, whilst hiding behind the facade of the 'brainless fop', Sir Percy Blakeney. This collection of short stories about th...

  • The Many Adventures of Scarlet Pimpernel

  • The Tangled Skein

    Popular novel, first published in 1907. According to Wikipedia: "Baroness Emma Magdolna Rozália Mária Jozefa Borbála "Emmuska" Orczy de Orczi (23 September 1865 â€" 12 November 1947) was a British novelist, playwright and artist of Hungarian nobl...



  • The Man in the Corner

    Baroness Emmuska Orczy (1865 - 1947) was a Hungarian-born British author and artist best known for writing the Scarlet Pimpernel series, a historical fiction that takes place during the French Revolution. Orczy was also a prolific writer of detective...

  • A Christmas Tragedy

    A Christmas party is punctuated by a gunshot under a policeman's watchful eye. A jewel heist is planned amidst the glitz and glamour of Oxford Street's Christmas Shopping. Lost in a snowstorm, a man finds a motive for murder. This collec...

  • The Scarlet Pimpernel: Audible Reissue

    A brand-new, unabridged recording of Baroness Orczy's classic tale of adventure, read by Julian Rhind-Tutt. Paris, 1792. The Terror has begun. Every day, scores of the French nobility are delivered to the guillotine. Trapped in the capital, they h...

  • A Joyous Adventure

    Not a Scarlet Pimpernel novel, but one set in the same universe. Excerpt: This interview had occurred in May in the year 1800. A few months later half a dozen were gathered round a deal table in the low whitewashed room of the _Cabaret du P&eacut...

  • Pride of Race

  • Unravelled Knots

    Teahouse Detective - 3

    Another classic collection of mysteries from the Golden Age of British crime writing, by the author of The Scarlet PimpernelIt has been twenty years since Polly Burton last saw the Teahouse Detective, but one foggy afternoon she stumbles into a Fleet...

  • Flower o' the Lily

    When Gilles de Crohin, Sire de Froidmont, received that sabre-cut upon his wrist—a cut, by the way, which had been dealt with such efficacy that it very nearly severed his left hand from his arm—he swore, so I understand, both lustily a...

  • The After House

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  • Unto Caesar

    • / General Fiction
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    "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 ...

  • The Mysterious Death on the Underground Railway

    in Murderous Schemes
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    Baroness Emmuska Orczy found fame with her classic 1903 play The Scarlet Pimpernel. However, she was also a prolific and popular writer of short fiction. 'The Mysterious Death on the Undergound Railway' is arguably her most timeless tale. Man...



Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Baroness Emmuska Orczy has published 49 books.

Baroness Emmuska Orczy does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Flower o' the Lily, was published in July 2022.

The first book by Baroness Emmuska Orczy, The Emperor's Candlesticks, was published in January 1899.

Yes. Baroness Emmuska Orczy has 2 series.
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