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The Scarlet Pimpernel Omnibus: The Scarlet Pimpernel; [MultiFormat]
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The greatest romantic adventures ever penned--love scenes, swordplay, masquerades, danger, heroes and heroines, villains and villainesses! You will find it all in the first three adventures of the Scarlet Pimpernel--collected complete and unabridged in one convenient eBook. If you've seen the movies, the television miniseries or the musical, but you've never read The Scarlet Pimpernel--download this great book now! Move over Zorro and Dr. Syn--here is the first ever costumed-hero with a secret i... more info>> 2004
Words: 234075 - Reading Time: 668-936 min.
Category: Historical Fiction
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The Man in the Corner [MultiFormat]
by Baroness Orczy
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"THE FIRST AND GREATEST OF THE ARMCHAIR DETECTIVES!" RAVES ELLERY QUEEN Here is a mystery classic by the creator of the Scarlet Pimpernel--complete with all eight charming period illustrations from the 1909 first edition!. "The nameless Old Man in the Corner is able to solve complex cases without leaving his chair in a London tea shop. Polly Burton, a young reporter for the Evening Observer, brings details of apparently insoluble cases to him, and he uses his deductive powers and giant intellect... more info>> 2004
Words: 69971 - Reading Time: 199-279 min.
Category: Mystery/Crime
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The Scarlet Pimpernel [MultiFormat]
by Baroness Orczy
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The Classic of Romance and Adventure! If you've never read The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy, buy this great book now! Move over Zorro and Dr. Syn--here is the first ever costumed-hero with a secret identity, the man who inspired them all, plus literature's most fiery, independent and alluring heroine. Sir Percy Blakeney is by day a witless fop interested only in clothes and gambling, by night the daring, courageous, elusive rescuer known only as The Scarlet Pimpernel. Marguerite St. Just-... more info>> 2004
Words: 85945 - Reading Time: 245-343 min.
Category: Historical Fiction
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The Second Scarlet Pimpernel Omnibus: El Dorado; Lord Tony's Wife; The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel [MultiFormat]
by Baroness Orczy
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The Second Three Pimpernel Classics! Swordplay, daring deeds, romance, suspense, and more await you in books 4-6 of the Scarlet Pimpernel series. Here is Percy Blakeney at his best. Rescuing the boy King of France, matching wits with Chauvelin, passing in disguise before the very guards charged with slaying him. Then the Pimpernel's best friend Lord Tony and Tony's new wife face Madam Guillotine. With the mobs of Paris ready to tear him to pieces, does Tony dare ride to the rescue? And what abou... more info>> 2005
Words: 287273 - Reading Time: 820-1149 min.
Category: Romance
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The Scarlet Pimpernel [Secure eReader (recommended)/Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader]
by Baroness Orczy
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 The first and most successful in the Baroness's series of books that feature Percy Blakeney, who leads a double life as an English fop and a swashbuckling rescuer of aristocrats, The Scarlet Pimpernel was the blueprint for what became known as the masked-avenger genre. As Anne Perry writes in her Introduction, the novel --has almost reached its first centenary, and it is as vivid and appealing as ever because the plotting is perfect. It is a classic example of how to construct, pace, and conclud... more info>>
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Scarlet Pimpernel [MultiFormat]
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In this classic romantic adventure Sir Percy Bakeney is a fop in public society, but as the "Scarlet Pimpernel" he secretly heads an organization to help French aristocrats flee the guillotine. How can he ever love or trust his wife, Marguerite again, after he learns she has betrayed a friend to Robespierre? 2005
Words: 84173 - Reading Time: 240-336 min.
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The Elusive Pimpernel [MultiFormat]
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The Elusive Pimpernel continues the enthralling escapades of Baroness Orczy's glamorous heroine and rakehell hero. Only months after being outwitted by Percy Blakeney in The Scarlet Pimpernel, Chauvelin of the secret police concocts a cunning plan to catch the Scarlet Pimpernel in France, using Marguerite as bait. It's 1793, the Terror is at its height! Heads are rolling like ripe cabbages! All Paris is seething with revolutionary fervor and hatred for the legendary Pimpernel, who dares pluck th... more info>> 2003
Words: 85047 - Reading Time: 242-340 min.
Category: Historical Fiction
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Lady Molly of Scotland Yard [MultiFormat]
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FEMALE "SHERLOCK HOLMES" OF THE GASLIGHT ERA! When Lady Molly's husband is framed for murder and sent to prison, she goes to work for Scotland Yard, and soon proves herself their most able detective. Through her investigations on criminal cases, Lady Molly hopes to discover proof of her husband's innocence and clues to the actual perpetrators of the crime. Lady Molly of Scotland Yard contains all twelve Lady Molly adventures, including " The Ninescore Mystery," "The Frewin Miniatures," "The Ford... more info>> 2004
Words: 81701 - Reading Time: 233-326 min.
Category: Mystery/Crime
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El Dorado [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader]
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There has of late years crept so much confusion into the mind of the student as well as of the general reader as to the identity of the Scarlet Pimpernel with that of the Gascon Royalist plotter known to history as the Baron de Batz, that the time seems opportune for setting all doubts on that subject at rest.
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The Elusive Pimpernel [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader]
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On! ever on! in that wild, surging torrent; sowing the wind of anarchy, of terrorism, of lust of blood and hate, and reaping a hurricane of destruction and of horror.
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The Leaque of the Scarlet Pimpernel [Secure Microsoft Reader]
by Baroness Orczy
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It was not, Heaven help us all! a very uncommon occurrence these days: a woman almost unsexed by misery, starvation, and the abnormal excitement engendered by daily spectacles of revenge and of cruelty. They were to be met with every day, round every street corner, these harridans, more terrible far than were the men.
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Lady Molly of Scotland Yard [Secure Microsoft Reader]
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A Baroness Orczy classic.
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