Sweeney Todd
by (uk) Thomas Peckett Prester James Malcolm Rymer
About This Novel
The book, originally titled "A String of Pearls: A Romance," was first published in 1846 and serialized in the British magazine "The People's Periodical and Family Library". It was later adapted into the famous musical and movie "Sweeney Todd." Fleet Street barber Swinney Todd has an eccentric personality, and his apprentice Tobias suffers from it and is threatened. Whenever a slightly better-dressed customer comes, he never leaves Todd's barber shop. Are they being murdered by the barber? At the same time, Mrs. Lovett's meat pie shop in Zhongyuan is doing a booming business. Lieutenant Thornhill, who returned from the sea, went to Todd's barber shop to get a haircut and disappeared ever since. His friends launched an investigation, and the clue was a string of pearls - a gift that Lieutenant Thornhill was entrusted by the missing Mark Ingisri to give to his sweetheart Joanna on Mark's behalf...
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