Pelham — Volume 06

"Pelham — Volume 06" by Baron Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton is part of a novel published in 1828. This silver fork novel follows young dandy Henry Pelham through fashionable society in Paris, London, and Cheltenham. Beginning as a light-hearted social comedy, the story transforms into a murder mystery with Gothic overtones when Pelham's friend faces execution for murder. Pelham must find the true killer in this work that helped pioneer the detective novel genre and influenced Edgar Allan Poe.

Pelham — Volume 06, by Baron Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton. Republished by OpenStories from Project Gutenberg eBook #7620.