Baroness Orczy

The Laughing Cavalier. Baroness Orczy

Set in Holland in 1623/1624, and published in 1913 ... revolves around Percy Blake, a foreign adventurer and ancestor of the Scarlet Pimpernel who goes by the name Diogenes who, we are told by Orczy, is the real subject of the famous painting The Laughing Cavalier by Frans Hals. First serialized in Adventure Magazine in 1914. - Excerpted from The Laughing Cavalier (novel)