The String of Pearls: A Romance - The Original Sweeney Todd (Penguin Classic Romance Thillers)

by Thomas Preskett Prest

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Beware the blood-soaked razor of Sweeney Todd, demon barber of Fleet Street!

Johanna Oakley's lover, Mark, has gone missing in suspicious circumstances. And the man who was meant to deliver Mark's last gift to her, a string of pearls, has gone missing too - last seen entering the barber-shop of Sweeney Todd.

In desperation, Johanna decides to dress up as a boy in order to gain access to Todd's premises. There, in a fetid underground crypt, she will discover the grisly truth about what has really happened to Sweeney Todd's unsuspecting customers - and what they have to do with Mrs Lovett, famed maker of the most delicious pies in London ...
  • ISBN10 0141192348
  • ISBN13 9780141192345
  • Publish Date 28 January 2010
  • Publish Status Out of Print
  • Out of Print 29 June 2021
  • Publish Country GB
  • Publisher Penguin Books Ltd
  • Imprint Penguin Classics
  • Format Paperback
  • Pages 384
  • Language English