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.
Disentangling Old Percy Disentangling Old Percy "Disentangling Old Percy" is a short story by English comic writer P. G. Wodehouse and one of seven stories featuring the fictional character Reggie Pepper. It was published in the US magazine "Collier's Weekly" on 30 March 1912 as "Disentangling Old Duggie". The story was published in "The Strand Magazine" in the UK in August 1912 as "Disentangling Old Percy". In the story, Reggie Pepper wants to help his pal Percy Craye when Percy's overbearing sister Florence Craye disapproves of Percy being engaged to a palm reader. The well-meaning young gentleman Reggie Pepper advises his friend Percy