Mysteries of London Vol. III


The Mysteries of London was a best-selling novel in mid-Victorian England, published in four volumes. This is the third volume. Initially serialized in weekly installments, they were the forerunners of today's soap operas. Known as "Penny Dreadfuls", they had no claim to literary brilliance but offered readers entertainment and excitement in the form of vice, poverty, wealth, virtue, mystery, romance and scandal in every combination and reached a mass audience. - Summary by Lynne Thompson (46 hr 11 min)

Chapters

The Travelling Carriage
Tom Rain and Old Death
Bow Street
Esther de Medina
The Appeal of Love
Dr. Lascelles
The Beautiful Patient
Seven Dials
A Death Scene -- Lock's Field
A Scene at the House of Sir Christopher Blunt
The Two Thousand Pounds -- Torrens Cottage
Adelais and Rosamond
The Elopement
Lady Hatfield and Dr. Lascelles -- Esther de Medina
The Opiate
The Lover and the Uncle
The Mysterious Letter -- Jacob
The Lovers
Mr. Frank Curtis's Pleasant Adventure
Happiness -- The Diamond Merchant
The Oath
The Alarm -- The Letter
Old Death
Castle Street, Long Acre
Matilda, the Country-Girl
The Lady's-Maid
London on a Rainy Evening -- A Scene in a Post-Chaise
Tom Rain's Lodgings in Lock's Field
The Mysteries of Old Death's Establishment
The Store Rooms
Another Deed of Infamy Brought to Light
Rainford in the Subterranean
Mrs. Martha Slingsby
The Pious Lady
Mr. Sheepshanks
The Baronet and his Mistress
Tom Rain and Jacob
The History of Jacob Smith Part 1
The History of Jacob Smith Part 2
Continuation of the History of Jacob Smith
Conclusion of the History of Jacob Smith
Fresh Alarms
The Paragraph in the Newspaper
Lord Ellingham and Tom Rainford
Mr. Frank Curtis Again
Mr. Dykes and his Myrmidons
Explanations
Farther Explanations
Lord Ellingham and Tom Rain
A Painful Interview
The Lawyer's Office
Lord Ellingham in the Dungeon
Lord Ellingham's Exertions
The Execution
Galvanism
The Laboratory -- Esther de Medina
A History of the Past Part 1
A History of the Past Part 2
A Father
The Resuscitated
The Jew's Family
Sir Christopher Blunt's Domestic Hearth
Captain O'Blunderbuss
Frank's Embarrassments
The Meeting in Battersea Fields
Old Death and his Friend Tidmarsh
The Examination
Mrs. Slingsby and the Baronet Again
The Marriage -- Rosamond
Dr. Wagtail -- Rosamond Torrens
Misery and Vice
Tim the Snammer
The History of Tim the Snammer Part 1
The History of Tim the Snammer Part 2
The History of Tim the Snammer Part 3
Mr. and Mrs. Curtis
Captain O'Blunderbuss Again
Three Months After Marriage
The Knight and the Captain
Tim the Snammer and Josh Pedler out on Business
The Father and Daughter
Retribution
The Earl of Ellingham and Lady Hatfield Again
Mrs. Slingsby and Mr. Torrens
Rosamond at Home
The Forged Cheque
The Reward of Crime
Old Death's Party
The History of a Livery Servant Part 1
The History of a Livery Servant Part 2
Conclusion of the History of a Livery Servant Part 1
Conclusion of the History of a Livery Servant Part 2
The Blackamoor
Scenes at the Blackamoor's House
The Surprise -- Jeffreys and Old Death
The New Justice of the Peace
Captain O'Blunderbuss Again -- Another Strange Visitor
The Confession
Newgate
'The Stout House'
Clarence Villiers and his Aunt
Sir Christopher Blunt a Hero
Carlton House
An Acquittal and a Sentence
The Condition of the Working Classes
The Earl of Ellingham and Esther de Medina
The Blackamoor's Strange Adventure
A State of Siege
The Surprise -- A Change of Scene
The Visit -- Habeas Corpus
The King's Bench Prison
A Farther Insight into the King's Bench Prison
A Tale of Sorrow Part 1
A Tale of Sorrow Part 2
Conclusion of the Tale of Sorrow
The Prisoners