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Cover of The String of Pearls: a Romance--The Original Sweeney Todd

The String of Pearls: a Romance--The Original Sweeney Todd

✍ Scribed by Prest, Thomas Preskett

Book ID
110492602
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Year
2009
Tongue
en-GB
Weight
202 KB
Category
Fiction
ISBN-13
9780141962023

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

Beware the blood-soaked razor of Sweeney Todd, demon barber of Fleet Street!

Johanna Oakley's lover, Mark, has gone missing in suspicious circumstances. And the man who was meant to deliver Mark's last gift to her, a string of pearls, has gone missing too – last seen entering the barber-shop of Sweeney Todd.

In desperation, Johanna decides to dress up as a boy in order to gain access to Todd's premises. There, in a fetid underground crypt, she will discover the grisly truth about what has really happened to Sweeney Todd's unsuspecting customers – and what they have to do with Mrs Lovett, famed maker of the most delicious pies in London ...

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*The String of Pearls* is the first installment of the Sweeney Todd penny part serial. It introduces the homicidal barber who became a staple of Victorian melodrama. In his barber shop on Fleet Street, Sweeney Todd murders his clients by tipping them down a chute and cleaning them off afterward with