The Nest of the Sparrowhawk
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 1909 1st edition |
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| Author | Baroness Orczy |
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| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Greening & Co |
| Released | 1909 |
| ISBN | NA |
The Nest of the Sparrowhawk (a Romance of the Xviith Century) was written by Baroness Orczy, author of the Scarlet Pimpernel, in 1909.
[edit] Plot
A malicious guardian in puritan Kent tricks his beautiful wealthy young ward into marrying him by disguising himself as an exiled French prince. He persuades his widowed sister-in-law to abet him in this plot, in which she unwittingly disgraces one of her long lost sons and finds the other murdered by the villain.
