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Lord Tony's Wife
A prologue in 1789 shows the discontented peasantry rising against the arrogant Duc de Kernogan, and his ruthless execution of the ringleader's innocent father. Four years later, the Duc is in exile, and bargaining to give his daughter to a rich merchant who promises funds to the royalist cause. Yvonne, the daughter, has other plans, and elopes with Lord Tony, one of the Scarlet Pimpernel's loyal band. The Duc and the merchant plot to abduct her - but the reader knows what the Duc does not, that the supposed merchant is the revolt's ringleader in disguise, and out for revenge on the whole family. The Duc thinks that they are taking the girl to Holland, but the ship steers for Nantes, where the revolutionaries are in firm control, and atrocities like the mass drowning of priests have taken place. The second half of the book takes place in Nantes, as the Scarlet Pimpernel takes on the seemingly impossible task of rescuing Lord Tony's wife from a fate worse than death.
FictionAction & AdventureHistoricalThrillersSuspense
RELEASED2002
PUBLISHERHouse of Stratus
LENGTH286
LANGUAGEEN
Baroness Emma Magdolna Rozália Mária Jozefa Borbála "Emmuska" Orczy de Orczi was born in Tarnaörs, Heves County, Hungary, the daughter of composer Baron Felix Orczy and Countess Emma Wass. In 1868, fearing a potential peasant revolution, her parents left Hungary. They lived in Budapest, Brussels, and Paris before settling in London in 1880. Orczy attended West London School of Art and then Heatherley's School of Fine Art. In 1894, she married illustrator Montague MacLean Barstow, whom she had met at art school. The couple had very little money, and Orczy started to work with her husband as a translator and an illustrator. In 1899, she had a child, and published her first novel, The Emperor's Candlesticks. In 1903, she and her husband coauthored her most famous work, The Scarlet Pimpernel. She went on to write over a dozen sequels to the novel. She also created a number of memorable detectives: Lady Molly Robertson-Kirk of Scotland Yard, who heads the "Female Department" (her cases are collected in *Lady Molly of Scotland Yard*, 1910); Monsieur Fernand, a Napoleonic-era secret agent (*The Man in Grey*, 1918); and Patrick Mulligan, a shady attorney (*Skin o' My Tooth*, 1928). Her greatest detective was the Old Man in the Corner, probably the first of the "armchair" detectives. He sits in a chair in a London tea shop, unraveling knots and intricate cases brought to him by Polly Burton, a young reporter. Many of these were later collected in *The Old Man in the Corner* (1909). [Leslie S. Klinger, *In the Shadow of Sherlock Holmes* (2011)]
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Lord Tony's Wife
by Baroness Emmuska Orczy Orczy
A prologue in 1789 shows the discontented peasantry rising against the arrogant Duc de Kernogan, and his ruthless execution of the ringleader's innocent father. Four years later, the Duc is in exile, and bargaining to give his daughter to a rich merchant who promises funds to the royalist cause. Yvonne, the daughter, has other plans, and elopes with Lord Tony, one of the Scarlet Pimpernel's loyal band. The Duc and the merchant plot to abduct her - but the reader knows what the Duc does not, that the supposed merchant is the revolt's ringleader in disguise, and out for revenge on the whole family. The Duc thinks that they are taking the girl to Holland, but the ship steers for Nantes, where the revolutionaries are in firm control, and atrocities like the mass drowning of priests have taken place. The second half of the book takes place in Nantes, as the Scarlet Pimpernel takes on the seemingly impossible task of rescuing Lord Tony's wife from a fate worse than death.
FictionAction & AdventureHistoricalThrillersSuspense
RELEASED2002
PUBLISHERHouse of Stratus
LENGTH286
LANGUAGEEN
Baroness Emma Magdolna Rozália Mária Jozefa Borbála "Emmuska" Orczy de Orczi was born in Tarnaörs, Heves County, Hungary, the daughter of composer Baron Felix Orczy and Countess Emma Wass. In 1868, fearing a potential peasant revolution, her parents left Hungary. They lived in Budapest, Brussels, and Paris before settling in London in 1880. Orczy attended West London School of Art and then Heatherley's School of Fine Art. In 1894, she married illustrator Montague MacLean Barstow, whom she had met at art school. The couple had very little money, and Orczy started to work with her husband as a translator and an illustrator. In 1899, she had a child, and published her first novel, The Emperor's Candlesticks. In 1903, she and her husband coauthored her most famous work, The Scarlet Pimpernel. She went on to write over a dozen sequels to the novel. She also created a number of memorable detectives: Lady Molly Robertson-Kirk of Scotland Yard, who heads the "Female Department" (her cases are collected in *Lady Molly of Scotland Yard*, 1910); Monsieur Fernand, a Napoleonic-era secret agent (*The Man in Grey*, 1918); and Patrick Mulligan, a shady attorney (*Skin o' My Tooth*, 1928). Her greatest detective was the Old Man in the Corner, probably the first of the "armchair" detectives. He sits in a chair in a London tea shop, unraveling knots and intricate cases brought to him by Polly Burton, a young reporter. Many of these were later collected in *The Old Man in the Corner* (1909). [Leslie S. Klinger, *In the Shadow of Sherlock Holmes* (2011)]
