
Sweeney Todd and the String of Pearls
The insidious Fleet Street barber slit his first throat in an 1846 "penny dreadful," one of those gaudy serialized novels that gleefully offered thrills and gore to sensation-hungry Victorians. TitledThe String of Pearls, it told of Sweeney Todd, whose shop stood next to St. Dunstan''s Church, just a few blocks from the Royal Courts of Justice. On this site, he robbed and murdered hundreds of cust...
The insidious Fleet Street barber slit his first throat in an 1846 "penny dreadful," one of those gaudy serialized novels that gleefully offered thrills and gore to sensation-hungry Victorians. TitledThe String of Pearls, it told of Sweeney Todd, whose shop stood next to St. Dunstan''s Church, just a few blocks from the Royal Courts of Justice. On this site, he robbed and murdered hundreds of cust...