The Mysteries of London, v. 4/4

The concluding volume of G. W. M. Reynolds's sprawling Victorian sensation serial, plunging once more into the secret staircases, gilded drawing rooms and desperate rookeries of a divided capital.

At a glance Gaslight, forged wills, aristocrats with skeletons in their cellars and pickpockets with… What it's about G. Reynolds's The Mysteries of London was a publishing phenomenon, sold in cheap weekly… Modelled on Eugène Sue's Parisian Mystères, it stitches together dozens of interlocking…

G. W. M. Reynolds's The Mysteries of London was a publishing phenomenon, sold in cheap weekly numbers and read aloud in workshops and taverns across the country.