The First Sir Percy The First Sir Percy The First Sir Percy is a 1920 adventure novel by Baroness Orczy featuring Sir Percy Blake, ancestor of Orczy's character The Scarlet Pimpernel. It is a direct sequel to "The Laughing Cavalier", occurring a few months after the events in the first book. It is March 1624 in Holland. Two months earlier, a mercenary/adventurer who calls himself "Diogenes" foiled the plot on the life of the Stadtholder. Now, he has finally met his real father, an English nobleman, and realized his true identity as Sir Percy Blake of Blakeney, heir to a large estate in Sussex.
Percy Frobisher Pilbeam steal Galahad's book by Parsloe-Parsloe. For a time he has hopes of making a large sum of money from the book, but his hopes are dashed; however, he does get well rewarded, when he agrees to employ Monty Bodkin in his detective agency. He reappears in "Something Fishy", published some 24 years later. In a 1995 adaptation of "Heavy Weather", made by the BBC and partners and broadcast in the United States by PBS, Pilbeam was played by David Bamber. Percy Frobisher Pilbeam Percy Frobisher Pilbeam is a fictional character in the works of P. G. Wodehouse. A journalist turned