The String of Pearls
Publisher: Wordsworth Editions Ltd; Wordsworth Classics
Published: March 4, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9781840224832
Subjects: 19th century fiction; Crime & mystery; Horror & ghost stories; Horror / General
First sentence: BEFORE FLEET STREET HAD REACHED its present importance, and when George the Third was young, and the two figures who used to strike the chimes at old St Dunstan's church were in all their glory -being a great impediment to errand-boys on their progress, and a matter of gaping curiosity to country people - there stood close to the sacred edifice a small barber's shop, which was kept by a man of the name of Sweeney Todd.'
Notes: Wordsworth Mystery & Supernatural