Sweeney Todd: The Real Story of the Demon Barber of Fleet Street

by PeterHaining (Author), PeterHaining (Author)

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  Hardcover
  1993

  $3.24

  The facts and fiction of Sweeney Todd's life are drawn together to present an account of this infamous murderer in the early years of the 19th century. Todd was a London barber who, with the aid of an ingenious revolving chair, slew possibly as many as 160 victims. The book moves from Bell Yard, where his accomplice, Margery Lovett, used the flesh of his victims for meat pies, to Fleet Street, the scene of his appalling crimes. It traces Todd's rise to notoriety, and the determination of Sir Richard Brown of the Bow Street Runners to catch him.

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  Paperback
  2002

  $3.24

  'Sweeney Todd will never die. We all need bogeymen and he was bogier than most.' - Anna Pavord, the Observer, 29 January 1979. Sweeney Todd, the notorious Demon Barber, has been called 'the greatest mass murderer in English history'. With the aid of an ingenious revolving chair and a cut-throat razor, he is said to have robbed and butchered over 160 victims in his Fleet Street barber shop before taking their remains to nearby Bell Yard, where his accomplice, Margery Lovett, cooked their flesh for meat pies. Separating fact from fiction, Peter Haining reveals a gruesome and bizarre story with a unique criminal at its heart. It will certainly give pie-lovers food for thought.