The String of Pearls: Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street
- ISBN-10
- 1534791647
- ISBN-13
- 9781534791640
- Series
- The String of Pearls
- Pages
- 222
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2016-06-20
- Authors
- James Rymer, Thomas Prest
Description
This story, first published as a penny dreadful serial from 1846-47, from the authors of Varney the Vampire, features Sweeney Todd, the infamous "Demon Barber of Fleet Street," who here makes his literary debut.Todd is a barber who murders his customers and turns their remains into meat pies, sold at the pie shop of his partner in crime: Mrs. Lovett.This is the original novel, the subject of which has later been adapted by several other writers; and is suspected to have had an origin in a real case in the Paris of the 1800's.
