Per the request of God is My Codependent, I'm posting about a book. Or series of books.
Back in 1905 Baroness Orczy published a play and novel that introduced to the world a spy --a spy with the unlikely name (or as God is My Codependent would say, sobriquet) of the Scarlet Pimpernel.
The Pimpernel, which is a small flower in real life, became firmly rooted in popular culture; so firmly rooted that even Daffy Duck tried his hand at spydom.
Baroness Orczy wrote many sequels and pre-quels to the Scarlet Pimpernel. She also inspired Harvard Law graduate, Lauren Willig.
Ms. Willig now has four books that pursue other fictional flowery spies in league with the Pimpernel. They are vaguely "romance-ish" which puts them categorically in the chick-lit column of my narrow reading preferences, but they are also witty, tongue-in-cheek plays on historical romances and spy novels and pansy-named British aristocracy.
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>>or as God is My Codependent would say, sobriquet
He would, wouldn't he?
Indubitably.
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