Emmuska Orczy wrote adventure and historical fiction best known for The Scarlet Pimpernel. Set during the French Revolution, the novel follows the elusive English aristocrat who secretly rescues condemned French nobles while maintaining the public persona of the apparently foolish Sir Percy Blakeney. The tension is complicated by his marriage to Marguerite, who does not initially know his double identity. Later Scarlet Pimpernel books expand the rescue missions and recurring characters, while Orczy also wrote other mysteries and historical adventures. Her prose is brisk, melodramatic and plot-led, fitting historical adventure, secret-identity fiction and early swashbuckling series. The Scarlet Pimpernel is the defining entry point for the series and its disguise-and-rescue structure. Read more Less
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