The First Sir Percy (Esprios Classics)

Baroness Emma Magdolna Rozália Mária Jozefa Borbála Emmuska Orczy de Orci (1865 - 1947) was a Hungarian-born British novelist and playwright. She is best known for her series of novels about an English aristocrat Sir Percy Blakeney Bart. who rescued French aristocrats from the French Revolution: The Scarlet Pimpernel. Orczy wrote 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. She also wrote popular mystery fiction and many adventure romances. Her Lady Molly of Scotland Yard was an early example of a female detective as the main character. Orczy was a founding member of the Detection Club (1930).