Baroness Orczy Books in Order

Two rival spies seize on a pair of hollow candlesticks as a way to move secret messages into Russia. Kidnapping, border crossings, and divided loyalties give Orczy's debut its momentum.

This first book collection of the Old Man in the Corner stories sends Polly Burton after obscure murders and baffling clues. The detective never leaves his chair, but his logic reaches everywhere.

During the Reign of Terror, a mysterious Englishman rescues aristocrats from the guillotine while France hunts his identity. Marguerite St. Just must choose between blackmail, loyalty, and the truth about her husband.

Juliette de Marny enters Paul Déroulède's house bent on revenge for her brother's death. But love, guilt, and the Scarlet Pimpernel complicate a plan that seemed simple at the start.

After the Jacobite defeat, a hunted earl hides on the Derbyshire moors while a masked highwayman robs the rich and helps the poor. Orczy blends fugitive suspense with romantic adventure.

Chauvelin lures Marguerite toward France with what looks like a perfect trap, hoping to bring Percy within reach of the guillotine. The real pleasure is watching Sir Percy turn the snare back on him.

A shabby, sharp-eyed stranger in a London tea shop solves notorious crimes by pure reasoning. Polly Burton listens, questions, and slowly realizes just how much he can see.

Lady Molly Robertson-Kirk solves crimes for Scotland Yard with patience, nerve, and a gift for reading people. Orczy gives her early female detective room to be both practical and quietly daring.

This French court romance follows Lydie d'Aumont as she is caught between passion, duty, and Pompadour's world of influence. Orczy balances glittering manners with real political danger.

At the court of Louis XV, Madame de Pompadour's influence shapes both politics and private lives. Lydie d'Aumont must navigate power, charm, and two very different suitors.

Louise Harris seems safely engaged until a rival heir appears and is found stabbed in a cab. Suddenly love, money, and murder are bound up in one painful trial.

In Puritan Kent, a ruthless guardian disguises himself as an exiled prince to trick his young ward into marriage. Orczy turns the scheme into a dark historical tale of deception and confinement.

At lonely Old Manor Farm, two sisters grow into very different women. Ambition, selfishness, and a disastrous marriage turn this quiet country story into a tense domestic drama.

Armand's recklessness gives Chauvelin his best chance yet to strike at the Pimpernel. The prize is the young Dauphin, and Percy must escape prison before France closes around him.

Set in the Dutch Republic, this swashbuckler follows the ancestor of Sir Percy Blakeney under the name Diogenes. It folds duels, politics, and Frans Hals's famous portrait into one lively adventure.

In a Hungarian village, Elsa and Andor are parted by conscription and family pressure, then forced back together on the eve of her unwanted marriage. Love, sacrifice, and violence erupt against a vivid rural backdrop.

In old Flanders, the fugitive Prince of Orange is hunted while plots thicken around him. Orczy builds the suspense around masks, divided loyalties, and the feared figure called Leatherface.

As revolution erupts in Brittany, love and old feuds pull Lord Tony into a dangerous fight for survival. The story mixes peasant unrest, family honor, and one of Orczy's most impetuous heroes.

Royalists return to France under Napoleon and find old family divisions still raw. Love and inheritance collide with politics as loyalties split between crown, empire, and home.

A shadowy figure moves through Napoleonic France, close to the hunt for royalists and political criminals. Orczy gives the story a dark atmosphere of secrecy, surveillance, and revenge.

Set in Restoration London, this historical romance circles around the actor Thomas Betterton, Mary Saunderson, and the friend who tells their story. Orczy mixes theater, reputation, and tangled affection.

These linked stories widen the Pimpernel world, showing the many rescues carried out by Sir Percy and his network. Each case offers a new disguise, a new escape, or a new trap.

Part short novel, part linked reminiscence, this book follows Ratichon, a boastful rogue moving through early nineteenth century Paris. The fun lies in his voice, his schemes, and the question of how much to believe.

This sequel to The Laughing Cavalier continues the story of the earlier Percy Blakeney in the Dutch Republic. Orczy gives the Pimpernel legend an adventurous family prehistory.

Sir Percy moves through the last violent phase of the Revolution, crossing paths with Thérésa Cabarrus, Tallien, and Chauvelin. History and adventure meet in one of the series' most political books.

After the First World War, a Blakeney descendant is drawn into the tensions of Transylvania and Hungarian politics. The book keeps Orczy's taste for loyalty and peril, but in a newer century.

Sometimes called Orczy's English answer to the Pimpernel, this adventure follows a gentleman whose easy manner hides unusual daring. Expect disguises, pursuit, and a hero who does his best work in secret.

Love, sacrifice, and political upheaval drive this later Orczy novel, which moves through exile, danger, and long separation. It blends personal feeling with a broader struggle against revolutionary change.

After a long gap, the Old Man in the Corner is back in his tea shop, still tying string and solving crimes for pleasure. These stories keep the focus on talk, logic, and elegant explanations.

Fleurette, the daughter of Chauvelin, is accused of treason when the Revolution finally reaches her own life. To save her, the great enemy of the Pimpernel must ask Percy for help.

Patrick Mulligan, the shambling Irish lawyer known as Skin o' My Tooth, stumbles into cases that demand more brains than polish. These stories are part legal mystery, part comic character study.

A later Orczy romance about appearances, memory, and feelings that prove harder to read than they seem. The drama comes from misunderstandings, shifting loyalties, and emotional reversals.

This story collection follows Sir Percy and his league through a fresh round of rescues, traps, and disguises. It is a good pick if you want shorter bursts of Pimpernel action.

A short Scarlet Pimpernel adventure set in Paris, where one ordinary street becomes the center of a dangerous rescue. Orczy gets a lot of tension out of a small space and a tight clock.

Set in the Brazilian sertão, this novel brings love, jealousy, and deception to a remote and unforgiving landscape. Even far from Europe, Orczy keeps the stakes personal and dramatic.

Sir Percy tells the story of André Vallon, a Jacobin who uses the Revolution to force a marriage and then finds love tangled with revenge. It is a darker, more personal Pimpernel tale.

Not a novel but a collection of essays and reflections, this book shows Orczy's views on politics, history, and public life. It is useful for readers who want the ideas behind the fiction.

Chauvelin closes in again as Sir Percy relies on disguise, nerve, and speed to stay free. Baron de Batz enters the game, giving this shorter Pimpernel novel a strong espionage edge.

An illegitimate daughter of Louis Napoleon is recruited to spy for Napoleon III by marrying into the aristocracy he mistrusts. At the same time, the man she loves is sent undercover among revolutionaries.

Framed through old papers and diary entries, this novel follows the hidden line of the French royal claim after the Revolution. Orczy turns royalist loyalty into a tale of secrecy, memory, and inheritance.

Set in the first months after The Scarlet Pimpernel, this adventure shows Sir Percy gathering his allies and beginning the work that made him famous. The rescues are risky, quick, and full of early Revolutionary danger.

Told by a young Russian, this late novel looks at lives overturned by the fall of the old order. Personal devotion and political catastrophe meet in one of Orczy's final historical dramas.

Two English brothers cross Europe as members of a secret society bent on killing Napoleon III. Orczy mixes politics, conspiracy, and divided loyalties in a tight late historical thriller.

Gabrielle wants revenge on the Saint-Lucque family, even if it sends women and children to the guillotine. But the new agent hunting English rescuers is not what he seems.

This late historical romance turns on family pride, social pressure, and loyalties that refuse to bend. Orczy uses love and class conflict to ask what people will sacrifice for name, blood, and belonging.

One of Orczy's late mysteries, this story follows a trail of false hopes, hidden danger, and elusive truth. The title suits a plot where what looks like rescue may lead deeper into trouble.

A body found in a barge turns a foggy railway station meeting into a baffling murder case. The Old Man in the Corner calmly reconstructs what happened from a tea shop table.

Patrick Mulligan, called Skin o' My Tooth, is drawn into a murder tied to a disputed inheritance and a vanished set of affidavits. Orczy turns a family claim into a neat puzzle of fraud, motive, and timing.

The stabbing of bookmaker Charles Lavender destroys a household and leaves Lord Arthur Skelmerton under suspicion. Orczy builds the case through grief, bad evidence, and one of her most haunting unsolved crimes.

Orczy looks back on her Hungarian childhood, London art school years, marriage, and long writing career. It is a warm memoir of the life behind the Scarlet Pimpernel and the books that followed.