The String of Pearls: Tale of Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street (Horror Classic) Sweeney Todd is a barber who murders his customers and turns their remains into meat pies sold at the pie shop of Mrs. Lovett, his partner in crime. His barber shop is situated in Fleet Street, London, next to St. Dunstan's church, and is connected to Lovett's pie shop in nearby Bell Yard by means of an underground passage. Todd dispatches his victims by pulling a lever while they are in his barber chair, which makes them fall backward down a revolving trapdoor and generally causes them to break their necks or skulls on the cellar floor below. If the victims are still alive, he goes to the basement and "polishes them off" by slitting their throats with his straight razor. |
Contents
The Meeting in the Temple | |
The Conference and the Fearful Narration in the Garden | |
The Barber and the Lapidiary | |
The Thieves Home | |
Johanna At Home and the Resolution | |
The Madhouse Cell | |
The New Cook of Mrs Lovett Gets Tired of His Situation | |
The Night at the Madhouse | |
Mr Foggs Story at the Madhouse | |
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Colonel Jeffrey Makes Another Effort to Come at Sweeney Todds Secret | |
Tobias Makes an Attempt to Escape From the Madhouse | |
The Madhouse Yard and Tobiass New Friend | |
The Colonel and His Friend | |
The Stranger at Lovetts | |
The Resolution Come To By Johanna Oakley | |
Johannas Interview with Arabella Wilmot and the Advice | |
Tobiass Threat and Its Consequences | |
The Second Interview Between Johanna and the Colonel in the Temple Gardens | |
The Barber Makes Another Attempt To Sell the String of Pearls | |
The Great Change in the Prospects for Sweeney Todd | |
Tobiass Adventures During the Absence of Sweeney Todd | |
The Strange Odour in St Dunstans Church | |
Sweeney Todds Proceedings Consequent Upon the Departure of Tobias | |
The Madhouse on Peckham | |
The Consultation of Colonel Jeffrey With the Magistrate | |
Tobiass Escape From Mr Foggs Establishment | |
The Rapid Journey of Tobias to London | |
The Announcement in Sweeney Todds Window Johanna Oakleys Adventure | |
Discoveries in the Vaults of St Dunstans | |
Johanna Alone the Secret Mr Todds Suspicions the Mysterious Letter | |
Sweeney Todd Commences Clearing the Road to Retirement | |
The Last Batch of Delicious Pies | |
The Prisoners Plan of Escape From the Pies | |
Sweeney Todd Shaves a Good Customer The Arrest | |
The Conclusion | |
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 | The String of Pearls: Or, Sweeney Todd - The Demon Barber of Fleet Street James Malcolm Rymer,Thomas Peckett Prest No preview available - 2018 |
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