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The butcher's daughter : the hitherto untold story of Mrs. Lovett / David Demchuk and Corinne Leigh Clark.
Van Pelt Library PR9199.3.D434 B88 2025
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Demchuk, David, author.
- Clark, Corinne Leigh, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Lovett, Mrs. (Legendary character)--Fiction.
- Lovett.
- Todd, Sweeney (Legendary character)--Friends and associates--Fiction.
- Todd, Sweeney.
- Police--England--London--Fiction.
- Police.
- Women journalists--England--London--Fiction.
- Women journalists.
- Great Britain--History--Victoria, 1837-1901--Fiction.
- Great Britain.
- Genre:
- Detective and mystery fiction.
- Epistolary fiction.
- Horror fiction.
- Historical fiction.
- Novels.
- Physical Description:
- 421 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Hell's Hundred, an imprint of Soho Press, [2025]
- Summary:
- "London, England, 1887: At the abandoned apartment of a missing young woman, a dossier of evidence is collected, ordered chronologically, and sent to the Chief Inspector of the London Police for review. It contains a curious correspondence between an inquisitive journalist, Miss Emily Gibson, and the woman Gibson thinks may be the infamous Mrs. Lovett-Sweeney Todd's accomplice, who baked men into pies and sold them in her pie shop on Fleet Street. A "wicked woman"-the talk of London Town. Rumors have swirled about Mrs. Lovett since the disappearance of hundreds of unwitting men decades prior-but is it actually Lovett, even if the suspected woman swears against it? As the woman relays the harrowing account of her life-from her upbringing on Butcher's Row, in the unruly and perilous streets of Victorian London, to her daring escape from a mad doctor-the correspondence unlocks an intricate mystery that brings Miss Gibson closer to the truth, even as that truth may cost her dearly. The Butcher's Daughter is a breathtaking epistolary journey, an inventive horror novel that sets the stage for the terrors of the modern era-and, at long last, unravels the true story behind Mrs. Lovett and her unspeakable crimes"-- Provided by publisher.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (page 419).
- ISBN:
- 9781641296427
- 1641296429
- OCLC:
- 1452502535
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