Orczy, Emmuska Orczy, Baroness
"Beau Brocade: A Romance by Baroness Emmuska Orczy Orczy" is a novel written in 1907. Set in Derbyshire after the Jacobite defeat, the story follows Philip James Gascoyne, the eleventh Earl of Stretton, who has been wrongly accused of treason and is hiding for his life. His only hope lies with a mysterious masked highwayman known as Beau Brocade, who steals from the rich to help the poor. As Philip desperately seeks to prove his innocence, danger closes in. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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