The Mysteries of London, v. 4/4

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First published: 1845
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Books and prayer have changed Tidmarsh's experience of confinement when a visitor questions him through his cell door. He regrets his part in Tom Rain's fate and hopes for a chance to earn an honest living. These exchanges open a volume of George W. M. Reynolds's London novel in which punishment, remorse and forgiveness become matters of urgent personal concern.

Another confrontation brings Mrs. Mortimer to the poor cellar lodging of Torrens, her husband, after a separation of more than nineteen years. She has followed him through the streets and arrives with purposes that leave him alarmed. The contents extend this world to debtors' courts, money lenders, family conflicts and a haunted house in Stamford Street. Readers interested in sprawling crime fiction can follow connected encounters shaped by old grievances, poverty and unequal power.