Baroness Emmuska Orczy
(23 September 1865 – 12 November 1947)

Baroness Orczy was a British novelist, playwright and artist of Hungarian origin.
She was most notable for her series of novels featuring
The Scarlet Pimpernel. (Source: Wikipedia)



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Her Novels:

The Scarlet Pimpernel (Playing time: 7hrs 49:21mins)
The classic story of Sir Percy Blakeney and his alter ego, the Scarlet Pimpernel.
A great adventure, set during the French Revolution. (Summary by Karen Savage)

Set in 1792, the action takes place during the early days of the French Revolution. Marguerite Blakeney, a beautiful French actress, is married to wealthy English fop Sir Percy Blakeney, a baronet, and they live in England.
The couple has become estranged due to her earlier unintentional denunciation of French aristocrat the Marquis de St. Cyr and his family, which resulted in their being sent to the guillotine.
Like many others, Marguerite is entranced by stories of the Scarlet Pimpernel—an anonymous hero who, through a combination of courage and daring, has rescued many aristocrats from Madame la Guillotine, and brought them safely to England.
Marguerite's beloved brother, Armand, is discovered to be part of the Scarlet Pimpernel's organization, and he is therefore in danger of being executed.
Marguerite is blackmailed by the wily French ambassador to England, Citizen Chauvelin; if she helps him uncover the Pimpernel's identity, Armand's life will be spared. She cannot face the thought of losing her brother, and she hopes that the Pimpernel will be able to save him. She is forced to do as Chauvelin wishes.
Contemptuous of her seemingly witless and unloving husband, Marguerite does not go to him for help, and passes along information which enables Chauvelin to learn the Pimpernel's true identity. When Sir Percy leaves for France, Marguerite discovers, to her horror, that he is the Pimpernel—the man she has betrayed, who had created the persona of a witless fop in order to deceive the world as to his true activities, and who could not reveal the truth to Marguerite because of his belief that she would denounce him to the French revolutionaries.
Desperate to make amends for her actions she follows Percy to France to try to warn him.
Chauvelin seems close to capturing Percy on several occasions, but the Englishman continues to outwit him, rescuing Armand and the Comte de Tourney, the father of a school friend of Marguerite's.
Safely back on board their schooner, the Day Dream, and touched by his wife's remorse, devotion and courage, he forgives her, and the reconciled couple returns to England.
(Summary from Wikipedia)
(Read by Karen Savage)





The Elusive Pimpernel (Playing time: 7hrs 30:28mins)
It is September 1793 and French Agent and chief spy-catcher Chauvelin is determined to get his revenge for the previous humiliations dished out to him at the hands of the Scarlet Pimpernel.Chauvelin travels to England as an official representative of the French government tasked with looking after the interests of French citizens, but this is only a cover and his real purpose is to trick Sir Percy Blakeney into returning to France, where he can be captured and put to the guillotine.The plot is hatched at a gala on Richmond Green, with the help of a young French actress, Désirée Candielle, whom Chauvelin has enlisted with promises of money, pardon and fame if she succeeds.Désirée is manning a tent with a model guillotine under the premise of raising money for the poor of Paris. Marguerite Blakeney enters her stall and starts talking to Désirée. On discovering her to be a fellow french actress, she is soon taken in by the young woman's sob story and before long had invited her to perform at her house in Richmond in front of the Prince of Wales.Once the offer has been made and accepted, Désirée's official chaperone is revealed as Chauvelin. Marguerite realises she's been set-up, but the offer has been made and Sir Percy insits that both of them should come to his house as arranged.Juliette de Marny (who's rescue by the Scarlet Pimpernel is told in I Will Repay), is staying with them at Blakeney Manor. Chauvelin has managed to get his hands on her family jewels (which were being looked after by the local Priest) and has given a diamond necklace which belonged to Juliette's mother, to Désirée Candielle.When Désirée turns up at the Blakeney's Richmond mansion wearing the jewels there is a bitter argument between the women. Désirée manages to engineer the situation so that Sir Percy must fight Chauvelin in a duel to avenge the insults levied against her -- for which they must go to France, as duelling is outlawed in England.The following morning Percy leaves Maguerite behind in Richmond and heads for Boulogne. Chauvelin has no intentions of actually fighting the Englishman, but to ensure the Pimpernel cannot escape before he can be captured, Chauvelin sets a further trap for Marguerite who falls for it hook line and sinker. Before long she has been arrested for attempting to enter France on a false passport, given to her by an apparently apologetic Désirée Candielle, as part of Chauvelin's plot.With Maguerite in prison and the citizens of Boulogne threatened with death if the she escapes, Chauvelin appears to have an air-tight plan to secure and discredit Sir Percy that will end the meddling of the Scarlet Pimpernel for good... but as always Percy is more than a match for his arch-enemy.
(Summary from Wikipedia)
(Read by Karen Savage)





El Dorado - Further Adventures of The Scarlet Pimpernel (Playing time: 10hrs 56:36mins)
It is 1794 and Paris, "despite the horrors that had stained her walls - has remained a city of pleasure, and the knife of the guillotine did scare descend more often than did the drop-scenes on the stage." The plot begins when Sir Percy reluctantly agrees to take Armand St. Just with him to France as part of a plan to rescue the young Dauphin. Percy warns Armand not to renew any friendships while in Paris, but it doesn't take long before Armand has ignored his warnings and renewed a friendship with the scheming Baron de Batz (in the pay of the Austrian government), who wants to free the Dauphin himself and despises the Scarlet Pimpernel and all he represents. Whilst attending the opera with De Batz, Armand foolishly tells him that he is in the league of the Scarlet Pimpernel. While there, he falls in love with a young actress named Citizeness Jeanne L'Ange. De Batz introduces the couple back stage at the theatre and once they have fallen for each other, De Batz tells Citizen Heron of the general committee of Public Safety where and when they have arranged to meet. After covering for Armand at her house, L'Ange is arrested and thrown into jail, however Armand, discovering her fate and in the throes of passion, fails to trust Sir Percy who has told him that he will rescue Jeanne, and forgets his promise to his leader. Armand, desperate to share Jeanne's fate, runs to the gate of the Temple prison and screams, "Long Live the King." There he's intercepted by none other than Percy's arch enemy, Chauvelin. Faced with the death of his love Armand betrays Percy, unaware that The Pimpernel has already secured Jeanne's freedom. Sir Percy is then captured and imprisoned by Chauvelin and Heron, in the cell that was home to Marie Antoinette in her last days. Chauvelin insits that Percy is to be deprived of food and rest in the hope that he will be weakened and disclose where young Capet, the uncrowned King of France, is being held following his rescue. It was first published in 1913.

The novel is notable in that it is the partial basis for most of the film treatments of the original book.
(Summary from Wikipedia)
(Read by Karen Savage)




The Old Man in the Corner (Playing time: 6hrs 20:34mins)
Created by Baroness Orczy, author of the famous Scarlet Pimpernel series, The Old Man In the Corner was one of the earliest armchair detectives, popping up with so many others in the wake of the huge popularity of the Sherlock Holmes stories.
This is one of three books of short stories featuring Bill Owen, Orczy's armchair detective, and although published after The Case of Miss Elliot it is first chronologically. The last book in the series is Unravelled Knots. The character of The Old Man had first appeared in a series of short stories collectively entitled "The Mysteries of Great Cities", appearing in the The Royal Magazine from April to October 1902, some of which were reprinted in the two subsequent collections.
The Old Man relies mostly upon sensationalistic "penny dreadful" newspaper accounts, with the occasional courtroom visit. He narrates all this information, while tying complicated knots in a piece of string, to Polly Burton, a female Journalist who frequents the same tea-shop (the ABC Teashop on the corner of Norfolk Street and the Strand). They enjoy an antagonistic relationship, as the Journalist attempts to cut the Old Man's ego down to size and the Old Man trumps her every time.
The mysteries themselves are pretty typical of Edwardian crime fiction, resting on a solid foundation of unhappy marriages and the inequitable division of family property. Other aspects of the time are illustrated by a murder in the London underground system; murder of a female doctor; and two cases involving artists living in "bohemian" lodgings.
Another new and noteworthy feature of these cases: no one is ever brought to justice, and in fact most of the villains cannot be proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.
(Read by J. M. Smallheer)

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