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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