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Baroness Orczy


(Emma Magdalena Rosalia Maria Josefa Barbara Orczy)
Hungary (1865 - 1947)

Baroness Orczy was born in Hungary in 1865, the daughter of Baron Felix Orczy, a landed aristocrat and well-known composer and conductor. Orczy moved with her parents from Budapest to Brussels and Paris, where she was educated. She studied art in London and exhibited work in the Royal Academy. Orczy married Montagu Barstow and together they worked as illustrators and jointly published an edition of Hungarian folk tales. Orczy became famous in 1905 with the publication of The Scarlet Pimpernel (originally a play co-written with her husband). Its background of the French Revolution and swashbuckling hero, Sir Percy Blakeney, was to prove immensely popular. Sequel books followed and film and TV versions were later made. Orczy also wrote detective stories. She died in 1947.
 

Genres: Historical, Mystery
 
Series
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Teahouse Detective
   1. The Old Man in the Corner (1908)
     aka The Man in the Corner
   2. The Case of Miss Elliott (1905)
   3. Unravelled Knots (1925)
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Novels
   The Emperor's Candlesticks (1899)
   Petticoat Government (1909)
   Petticoat Rule (1910)
   The Heart of a Woman (1911)
     aka A True Woman
   The Nest of the Sparrowhawk (1911)
   Meadowsweet (1912)
   Leatherface (1916)
   The Man in Grey (1918)
   The Miser of Maida Vale (1925)
   The Celestial City (1926)
   Blue Eyes and Grey (1929)
   In the Rue Monge (1931)
   Marivosa (1931)
   A Joyous Adventure (1932)
   A Spy of Napoleon (1934)
   The Uncrowned King (1935)
   Divine Folly (1937)
   No Greater Love (1938)
   Pride of Race (1942)
   Will O'-the-Wisp (1947)
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Collections
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Novellas and Short Stories
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Anthologies edited
   Old Hungarian Fairy Tales (1895) (with Montagu Barstow)
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Non fiction show
 
Anthologies containing stories by Baroness Orczy
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Murder in a Heatwave (2023)
(Vintage Murders, book 7)
edited by
Cecily Gayford
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Final Acts (2022)
Theatrical Mysteries
(British Library Crime Classics)
edited by
Martin Edwards
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The Edinburgh Mystery (2022)
And Other Tales of Scottish Crime
(British Library Crime Classics)
edited by
Martin Edwards

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