The String of Pearls; Or, The Barber of Fleet Street. A Domestic Romance.
Thomas Peckett Prest
1810 – 1859
ENPublic Domain
Summary
"The String of Pearls; Or, The Barber of Fleet Street. A Domestic Romance." by Rymer et al. is a penny dreadful serial published from 1846 to 1847. This tale introduces Sweeney Todd, the murderous barber of Fleet Street who kills his customers and delivers their corpses to Mrs. Lovett, who bakes the flesh into meat pies. When a sailor mysteriously disappears after visiting Todd's shop, friends and loved ones investigate, uncovering a horrifying secret beneath St. Dunstan's church that reveals the true scale of Todd's crimes. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
Subjects
- Bakers — Fiction
- Barbers — Fiction
- Cannibalism — Fiction
- Fleet Street (London, England) — Fiction
- Historical fiction
- Horror tales
- London (England) — Social life and customs — 18th century — Fiction
- Missing persons — Fiction
- Murder — Fiction
- Mystery fiction
- Penny dreadfuls
- Revenge — Fiction
- Suspense fiction
- Todd, Sweeney (Legendary character) — Fiction
- Young women — Fiction