TY - BOOK AU - Orczy,Emmuska Orczy,Baroness TI - The Laughing Cavalier: The Story of the Ancestor of the Scarlet Pimpernel AV - PR PY - 2010/// CY - Salt Lake City, UT PB - Project Gutenberg KW - Historical fiction KW - Adventure stories KW - Netherlands -- History -- 17th century -- Fiction N1 - Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Laughing_Cavalier_(novel); Release date is 2010-07-20; Produced by Brenda Lewis, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from scanned images of public domain material from the Google Print project.); Original publication data not identified N2 - "The Laughing Cavalier: The Story of the Ancestor of the Scarlet Pimpernel" by Baroness Orczy is an adventure novel published in 1913. Set in 1623 Holland, the story follows Percy Blakeney, a dashing foreign mercenary who becomes entangled in a deadly conspiracy. When he's hired to kidnap Gilda Beresteyn, daughter of a wealthy merchant, Blakeney finds himself caught between a dangerous assassination plot, a vengeful nobleman, and his growing feelings for his captive—who could send him to the gallows with a single word. (This is an automatically generated summary.) UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/33208 ER -