The string of pearls : a romance
(2020)

Fiction

eBook

Provider: hoopla

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PUBLISHED
[United States] : Interactive Media, 2020
Made available through hoopla
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1 online resource

ISBN/ISSN
9781787361836 (electronic bk.) MWT13306373, 1787361837 (electronic bk.) 13306373
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES

Todd is a barber who murders his customers and turns their bodies over to Mrs. Lovett, his partner in crime, who bakes their flesh into meat pies. His barber shop is situated in Fleet Street, London, next to St. Dunstan's church, and is connected to Lovett's pie shop in nearby Bell Yard by means of an underground passage. Todd dispatches his victims by pulling a lever while they are in his barber chair, which makes them fall backward down a revolving trapdoor and generally causes them to break their necks or skulls on the cellar floor below. If the victims are still alive, he goes to the basement and "polishes them off" by slitting their throats with his straight razor

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