Complete Bound Copy of The London Miscellany, vol. 1 (1866).
To read James Malcolm Rymer's A Mystery in Scarlet in its original publication context, accompanied by other contents of The London Miscellany no. 1-18 (1866), please see the bound copy of that periodical in the collection of the Wells Library, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana. This copy lacks the series of four promotional color prints titled Rich and Poor and accompanying the serial of that name; these prints are accessible elsewhere in this COVE edition.
Tower of London (16)
Richard makes a full circle. He is sent to the Tower of London as a prisoner. He is to remain there. Eventually he tries to escape and then is sentenced to death.
"He was not to die--but rather to pine out a miserable existence--or had the sage onarch any other scheme? The high-spirited Prince was to be cooped up with the Tower- there, where the Earl of Warwick wasted his wretched life" (467).
Westminster Palace (15)
Richard is now in the presence of the king. The king does not plan on killing Richard, but he wants to make sure everyone knows who is in control. Richard is paraded around and put on display for the public to see his capture and to confess that his is an imposter.
"The appetite was keenest in London; and many tawdry masque and mime was put in motion, to deck the streets through which the defeated youth was to pass. Vainly; he entered London at night, and was conducted privately to Westminster" (429).
Taunton (14)
Richard is getting close to returing to the king. He arrives at the location he originally attempted an attack against the king. He is willing to turn himself in so long as no one else is blamed for his actions or are seen as an accomplice.
"After three days they drew near Tauton. The Stubble fields, the flowery hedges, the plenteous orchards were passed. From a rising ground they looked upon the walls of the town, and the vacant moor where his camp had stood" (424).