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Robert Louis Stevenson, celebrated author of Treasure Island (1882-3), Kidnapped (1886), and "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" (1886) was a lifelong connoisseur of "penny dreadfuls": illustrated serial fiction that targeted working-class readers. In Stevenson's childhood, his nurse Alison Cunningham often read dreadfuls to him. In adulthood, Stevenson was haunted by one serial in particular. This was A Mystery in Scarlet by “Malcolm J. Errym,” the pseudonym of James Malcolm Rymer (1814-84).

"Rich and Poor--Plate IV.---One December Night."

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"Rich and Poor---Plate III.---Married Life in the Country."

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"Rich and Poor---Plate II.---A Summer's Night in Belgravia."

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Amiens

Amiens is a city in northern France known for its thirteenth-century Gothic cathedral. On 27 November 1870, it was the site of the Battle of Amiens in the Franco-Prussian War of 1870–71.

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Lunéville

Lunéville is a city in the northeast of France and the historical capital of the Lorraine region on the border between French and Germany. It is home to the Château de Lunéville, the historic seat of the Dukes of Lorraine.

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New Orleans

New Orleans is a port city on the Mississippi river in the state of Louisiana in the southern United States.

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Mississippi Delta

The Mississippi Delta is a region in the northwest of the state of Mississippi in the southern United States, located between the Mississippi and Yazoo rivers.

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A Book of Nursery Songs and Rhymes

Fairbrass: A Children's Story

A Mystery in Scarlet: Editorial Introduction