Diogenes, a penniless English soldier of fortune with a ready laugh, roams the Dutch Republic in the winter of 1623 with his two drunken companions. Hired for a shady errand on New Year’s Eve, he finds himself caught in a plot against the Stadtholder and in the fortunes of a proud young woman of Haarlem.
Orczy invents an ancestor for Sir Percy Blakeney and a sitter for Frans Hals in one high-spirited romance. Download the free EPUB.