The First Sir Percy _ Part of the Scarlet Pimperel Series (8) _ Plus: Biography of Emmuska ( Emma ) Baroness Orczy.

Ancestor of Orczy’s character The Scarlet Pimpernel, Sir Percy Blake is the adventurer of The First Sir Percy, novel of Baroness Orczy published in 1920. It is a direct sequel to The Laughing Cavalier.

It is March 1624 in Holland. Two months earlier, a mercenary/adventurer who calls himself “Diogenes” foiled the plot on the life of the Stadtholder. Now, he has finally met his real father, an English nobleman, and realized his true identity as Sir Percy Blake of Blakeney, heir to a large estate in Sussex. He is also getting married to Gilda Beresteyn, the woman he was paid to kidnap back in January.

Wuilia Ebooks _ ISBN 978-2-38481-002-4_ English Version _ ePub _ 92,392 words (5 hours 36 minutes) – 586 pages _ 19/05/2022.