Baroness Orczy 
The Man In Grey Being Episodes of the Chovan Conspiracies in Normandy During The First Empire. Normandy During the First Empire. 

The Man In Grey is a romantic melodrama novel written by Baroness Orczy. The story opens during a Rohan estate sale in London in 1943, a Wren and an RAF pilot (Stewart Granger) cross paths since the last male heir died at Dunkirk. It is a collection of short stories complied into a single draft so that everyone can read them. The title character is so influencing that readers are compelled to turn pages. While some of the stories are interesting and amazing others are gruesome and can thrill readers. Orczy was born in Hungary's Tarnaörs. She was the daughter of Countess Emma Wass de Szentegyed et Cege and Baron Félix Orczy de Orci (1835–1892), a composer. The Emperor's Candlesticks (1899), In Mary's Reign (1901), The Scarlet Pimpernel (1905), By the Gods Beloved (1905), A Son of the People (1906), I Will Repay (1906), Beau Brocade (1907).