The Mysteries of London was a best-selling novel in mid-Victorian England, published in four volumes. This is the second volume. Initially serialized in weekly installments, they were the forerunners of today's soap operas. Known as "Penny Dreadfuls", they had no claim to literary brilliance but offered readers entertainment and excitement in the form of vice, poverty, wealth, virtue, mystery and scandal in every combination and reached a mass audience. - Summary by Lynne Thompson
Chapters
1 Rat's Castle 20 min 2 A Public Functionary 19 min 3 The Confidence 17 min 4 Incidents in the Gipsy Palace 17 min 5 The Subterranean 12 min 6 Gibbet 13 min 7 Morbid Feelings 17 min 8 The Unfinished Letter 17 min 9 Hypocrisy 12 min 10 The Bath - The Housekeeper 20 min 11 The Rector's New Passion 20 min 12 The Old Hag's Intrigue 16 min 13 The Masquerade 16 min 14 Mrs. Kenrick 19 min 15 A Mysterious Deed 19 min 16 The Death-Bed 17 min 17 Proceedings in Castelcicala 15 min 18 Reflections - The New Prison 18 min 19 Patriotism 15 min 20 The Decision 12 min 21 The Trial of Catherine Wilmot 25 min 22 A Happy Party 20 min 23 The Interview 21 min 24 The Rector in Newgate 17 min 25 Lady Cecilia Harborough 27 min 26 The Bequest 16 min 27 The Zingarees 21 min 28 The Executioner's History 35 min 29 The Trace 14 min 30 The Thames Pirates 21 min 31 An Arrival at the Wharf 10 min 32 The Plague Ship 19 min 33 The Pursuit 19 min 34 The Black Veil 16 min 35 Mr. Greenwood's Dinner-Party 15 min 36 The Mysteries of Holmesford House 26 min 37 The Adieux 18 min 38 Castelcicala 25 min 39 Montoni 25 min 40 The Club-House 22 min 41 The History of an Unfortunate Woman part 1 58 min 42 The History of an Unfortunate Woman part 2 57 min 43 The Tavern at Friuli 24 min 44 The Journey 15 min 45 The 'Boozing-Ken' Once More 27 min 46 The Resurrection Man Again 19 min 47 Mr. Greenwood's Journey 17 min 48 Kind Friends 19 min 49 Estella 32 min 50 Another New-Year's Day 19 min 51 The New Cut 20 min 52 The Forged Bills 27 min 53 The Battles of Piacere and Abrantani 43 min 54 The Battle of Montoni 19 min 55 Two of our Old Acquaintances 17 min 56 Crankey Jem's History 1 h 57 The Mint - The Forty Thieves 48 min 58 Another Visit to Buckingham Palace 29 min 59 The Royal Breakfast 22 min 60 The Aristocratic Villain and the Low Miscreant 18 min 61 The Old Hag and the Resurrection Man 19 min 62 Ellen and Catherine 17 min 63 A Gloomy Visitor 22 min 64 The Orphan's Filial Love 29 min 65 A Maiden's Love 29 min 66 The Handsome Stranger - Disappointment 18 min 67 The Princess Isabella 24 min 68 Ravensworth Hall 18 min 69 The Bride and Bridegroom 14 min 70 The Breakfast 18 min 71 The Patrician Lady and the Unfortunate Woman 20 min 72 The Husband, the Wife, and the Unfortunate Woman 21 min 73 The Resurrection Man's House in Globe Town 19 min 74 Alderman Sniff - Tomlinson and Greenwood 25 min 75 Holford's Studies 24 min 76 The Deed 14 min 77 The Examination at the Home Office 10 min 78 The Tortures of Lady Ravensworth 22 min 79 The Duellists 20 min 80 The Voices in the Ruins 22 min 81 The Progress of Lydia Hutchinson's Vengeance 32 min 82 The Prisoner in the Subterranean 19 min 83 The Veiled Visitor 19 min 84 The Murder 14 min 85 The Effect of the Oriental Tobacco 19 min 86 The Return to England 23 min 87 The Arrival at Home 22 min 88 The Marriage 19 min 89 Mr. Banks's House in Globe Lane 24 min 90 The Old Hag's History 50 min 91 The Marquis of Holmesford 32 min 92 Coldbath Fields' Prison 14 min 93 A Desperate Achievement 26 min 94 The Widow 28 min 95 Bethlem Hospital 26 min 96 Mr. Greenwood and Mr. Vernon 15 min 97 Scenes at Ravensworth Hall 19 min 98 A Welcome Friend 12 min 99 A Midnight Scene of Mystery 21 min 100 Plots and Counterplots 29 min 101 Woman as She Ought to be 24 min 102 The Jugglers 25 min 103 The Performance 41 min 104 The Resurrection Man's Return Home 10 min 105 A New Epoch 26 min 106 Crockford's 26 min 107 The Aunt 19 min 108 The Fight - The Ruined Gamester 22 min 109 The History of a Gamester part 1 49 min 110 The History of a Gamester Part 2 43 min 111 The Excursion 36 min 112 The Party at Ravensworth Hall 26 min 113 The Stranger Who Discovered the Corpse 15 min 114 An Unpleasant Exposure 28 min 115 The Resurrection Man's Last Feat at Ravensworth Hall 20 min 116 Egerton's Last Dinner Party 38 min 117 The Obstinate Patient 20 min 118 Death of the Marquis of Holmesford 19 min 119 The Ex-Member for Rottenborough 32 min 120 Further Misfortunes 17 min 121 Gibbet at Markham Place 14 min 122 Eliza Sydney and Ellen - The Hospital 22 min 123 The Revenge 26 min 124 The Appointment Kept 31 min 125 Conclusion 7 min 126 Epilogue 5 min
