{"product_id":"2940011864469","title":"THE MYSTERIES OF LONDON (Volume II)","description":"Scanned, proofed and corrected from the original hardcover edition for enjoyable reading. (Worth every penny spent!)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLots of reading (123 Chapters) and generously illustrated!\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e***\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis is Volume Two of The Mysteries of London which was a penny dreadful written by George W. M. Reynolds. Reynolds wrote the first two series of this long-running narrative of life in the seedy underbelly of mid-nineteenth-century London for this immensely popular title.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ean extract from the very beginning of the second volume:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER CXXXVII. - RATS' CASTLE.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRichard Markham, though perfectly unpretending in manner and somewhat reserved or even sedate in disposition, possessed the most undaunted courage. Thus was it that, almost immediately recovering himself from the sudden check which he had experienced at the hands of the Resurrection Man, he hurried in pursuit of the miscreant, followed by the policeman and the people whom the alarm which he had given had called to his aid.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe people were, however, soon tired of running gratuitously for an object which they could scarcely comprehend; but the police-officer kept close to Markham; and they were speedily reinforced by two other constables, who, seeing that something was the matter, and with characteristic officiousness, immediately joined them.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom an inquiry put to the waterman of the adjacent cab-stand, who had seen a person running furiously along a moment or two before, Markham felt convinced that the object of his pursuit had plunged into the maze of Saint Giles's; and, though well aware of the desperate character of that individual, and conscious that should he encounter him alone in some dark alley or gloomy court, a fearful struggle must ensue between them, he did not hesitate, unarmed as he was, to dash into that thicket of dangerous habitations.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSoon outstripping the officers, who vainly begged  him to keep with them, as they were unacquainted with the person of whom he was in pursuit, — forgetting every measure of precaution in the ardour of the chase, Richard rushed headlong through the dark and unpaved streets, following the echo of every retreating footstep which he heard, and stopping only to scrutinise the countenances of those who, in the obscurity of the hour and place, seemed at first might to resemble the exterior of the Resurrection Man.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eVain was his search. At length, exhausted, he mate down on the steps of a door-way to recover his breath, after having expended an hour In his fruitless search up one street, down another, and in every nook and corner of that district which we have before described as the Holy Land.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAccident shortly led the officers, who had originally entered upon the chase with him, to the spot where he was seated.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Here is the gentleman himself,\" said one, turning the glare of his bull's-eye full upon our hero.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"No luck, I suppose, sir?\" observed another. \"You had much better have remained with us and given us some idea of the person that you want.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Fool that I was!\" exclaimed Markham, now perceiving his imprudence in that respect: \"I have left you to pursue a shadow, instead of depicting to you the substance. But surely the name of Anthony Tidkins — \"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The Resurrection Man, as they call him,\" hastily remarked one of the constables....","brand":"OGB","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47152438935792,"sku":"2940011864469","price":3.6,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940011864469_p0.jpg?v=1763550619","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940011864469","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}