The Elusive Pimpernel (Unabridged)

Written by Baroness Orczy

Narrated by Digital Voice Marcus G

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.

In the blood-soaked streets of Paris, terror reigns. The infamous Citizen Chauvelin, with a cruelty that chills the soul, hunts the aristocracy, his sights set on the elusive Scarlet Pimpernel – a phantom who whisks condemned nobles from the jaws of the guillotine. Yet, beneath the flamboyant facade of the foppish Sir Percy Blakeney, a daring hero hides. As whispers of the Pimpernel's next daring rescue reach Chauvelin's ears, a cunning trap is set, luring Blakeney into a web of intrigue and danger. Will the Scarlet Pimpernel escape Chauvelin's grasp, or will his final act of defiance be his undoing? Embark on a thrilling tale of love, deception, and heroism in the face of revolution.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Falcon Press
• Release date: Mar 24, 2022
• ISBN: 9798868764486

Baroness Orczy

Baroness Emma Orczy was born in Hungary in 1865, the daughter of the composer Baron Félix Orczy de Orci. The Orczy family, fearing a peasant revolution, left their country estate for Budapest in 1868 and settled in London in 1880. There Emma attended art school and met her future husband, a clergyman’s son, Montague MacLean Barstow. Following the birth of their only child, she began writing historical novels and plays to supplement his low income. The Scarlet Pimpernel was her first play (and third novel) and proved an enormous success in both mediums. Orczy went on to pen over a dozen sequels, as well as many other novels. She died in Oxfordshire in 1947.