Full name: Emma ("Emmuska") Magdolna Rozália Mária Jozefa Borbála Orczy de Orczi was a Hungarian-British novelist, best remembered as the author of THE SCARLET PIMPERNEL (1905). Baroness Orczy's sequels to the novel were less successful. She was also an artist, and her works were exhibited at the Royal Academy, London. Her first venture into fiction was with crime stories. Among her most popular characters was The Old Man in the Corner, who was featured in a series of twelve British movies from 1924, starring Rolf Leslie. Baroness Emmuska Orczy was born in Tarnaörs, Hungary, as the only daughter of Baron Felix Orczy, a noted composer and conductor, and his wife Emma. Her father was a friend of such composers as Wagner, Liszt, and Gounod. Orczy moved with her parents from Budapest to Brussels and then to London, learning to speak English at the age of fifteen. She was educated in convent schools in Brussels and Paris. In London she studied at the West London School of Art. Orczy married in 1894 Montague Barstow, whom she had met while studying at the Heatherby School of Art. Together they started to produce book and magazine illustrations and published an edition of Hungarian folktales. Orczy's first detective stories appeared in magazines. As a writer she became famous in 1903 with the stage version of the Scarlet Pimpernel.
Series
Books
A Christmas Tragedy
2018
Collected Works of Baroness Emma Orczy
2014
Blood on the Tracks
Railway Mysteries
2018
The Man In Grey
1919
Female Sleuths Megapack
Lady Molly of Scotland Yard, Loveday Brooke and Amelia Butterworth
2013
The Triumph of the Scarlet Pimpernel
1922
Fenchurch Street Mystery
1966
The Adventures Of The Scarlet Pimpernel
1929
The First Sir Percy
1921
The Emperor's Candlesticks
1899
Unravelled Knots
1926
The Mysterious Death on the Underground Railway
2011
El Dorado
1913
The Scarlet Pimpernel Looks at the World
1933
The Way of the Scarlet Pimpernel
1933
Mam'zelle Guillotine
1940
The Scarlet Pimpernel
1905
In the Rue Monge
A Short Story
2006
The Old Man in the Corner
1908
The Tangled Skein
1901
Lady Molly Of Scotland Yard
1910
The Nest of the Sparrowhawk
1909
The Christmas Card Crime and Other Stories
2018
Leatherface
A Tale of Old Flanders
1916
Sir Percy Hits Back
1927
Final Acts
Theatrical Mysteries
2022
The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel
1919
Unto Caesar
1914
A Story of the Scarlet Pimpernel
1932
Old Hungarian Fairy Tales
1895
The Elusive Pimpernel
1908
Beau Brocade
1907
Meadowsweet
1912
The Bronze Eagle
1915
The Laughing Cavalier
1914
The Scarlet Pimpernel / The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel / The Elusive Pimpernel / The Triumph of the Scarlet Pimpernel
2013
Reader's Digest Great Detective Stories
1998
By the Gods Beloved
1905
I Will Repay
1906
The Case of Miss Elliott
1905
Sir Percy Leads the Band
1936
Three Adventures of the Scarlet Pimpernel
1922
The York Mystery
2004
Lord Tony's Wife
1916
A Child of the Revolution
1932
Pimpernel and Rosemary
1924
