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''The Mysteries of London'' is a penny dreadful or city mysteries novel begun by George W. M. Reynolds in 1844. Reynolds wrote the first two series of this long-running narrative of life in the seedy underbelly of mid-nineteenth-century London. Thomas Miller wrote the third series and Edward L. Blanchard wrote the fourth series of this immensely popular title. Michael Angelo in ''Penny Dreadfuls and Other Victorian Horrors'' writes:
Instalments were published weekly and contained a single illustration and eight pages of text printed in double columns. The weekly numbers were later bound in cloth covers with a fresh title page and table of contents and offered as complete works of fiction. After Reynolds quit ''The Mysteries of London'', he began a new title: ''The Mysteries of the Court of London'', which ran from 1848 until 1856. ==Plot== The closest the stories have to a hero is the character Richard Markham, and the most villainous of the cast of villains the Resurrection Man, a serial killer.〔Anne Humpherys, Louis James G.W.M. Reynolds: Nineteenth-century Fiction, Politics 2008 - Page 159 "The Resurrection Man is the principal underworld villain of the serial, stalking Richard Markham and robbing, killing and exhuming his way through the text, impossible to destroy until the finale. He is finally killed by his own double, Cranky "〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Mysteries of London」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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