British Mysteries Boxed Set: The Emperor's Candlesticks / The Nest of the Sparrowhawk / The Heart of a Woman / The ... Molly of Scotland Yard / Skin o' My Tooth…
This meticulously edited crime & mystery collection includes the spy novels, thrillers, murder mysteries and detective stories from the author of the famous Scarlet Pimpernel. Novels: The Emperor's Candlesticks The Nest of the Sparrowhawk The Heart of a Woman (A True Woman) Short Stories: The Old Man in the Corner The Fenchurch Street Mystery A Millionaire in the Dock His Deduction The Robbery in Phillimore Terrace A Night's Adventure All He Knew The York Mystery The Capital Charge A Broken-Hearted Woman The Mysterious Death on the Underground Railway The Liverpool Mystery A Cunning Rascal The Edinburgh Mystery A Terrible Plight Non Proven Undeniable Facts The Theft at the English Provident Bank Conflicting Evidence An Alibi The Dublin Mystery Forgery A Memorable Day An Unparalleled Outrage (The Brighton Mystery) The Prisoner A Sensation The Regent's Park Murder The Motive Friends The De Genneville Peerage (The Birmingham Mystery) A High-Bred Gentleman The Living and the Dead The Mysterious Death in Percy Street Suicide or Murder The End Unravelled Knots The Khaki Tunic The Ingres Masterpiece The Pearl Necklace The Russian Prince The Mysterious Tragedy in Bishop'S Road The Dog'S Tooth Cliff The Tytherton Case The Brudenell Court The White Carnation The Montmartre Hat The Miser of Maida Vale The Fulton Gardens Mystery A Moorland Tragedy Lady Molly of Scotland Yard The Ninescore Mystery The Frewin Miniatures The Irish-Tweed Coat The Fordwych Castle Mystery A Day's Folly A Castle in Brittany A Christmas Tragedy The Bag of Sand The Man in the Inverness Cape The Woman in the Big Hat Sir Jeremiah's Will The End Skin o' My Tooth The Murder in Saltashe Woods The Case of the Sicilian Prince The Duffield Peerage Case -- The Kazan Pearls The Case of Major Gibson The Inverted Five The Turquoise Stud Overwhelming Evidence The Case of Mrs. Norris The Murton-Braby Murder A Shot in the Night The Hungarian Landowner
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.