Fleet Street moved to Somerset House on the Strand. The barber Sweeney Todd is traditionally said to have lived and worked in Fleet Street in the 18th century, where he would murder customers and serve their remains as pie fillings. An urban myth example of a serial killer, the character appears in various English language works starting in the mid-19th century. Adaptations of the story include the 1936 George King , the 1979 Stephen Sondheim , and the 2007 Tim Burton based on the musical, all titled "Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street". Fleet Street is mentioned in several of
The Fleet Street Murders and amiable hero." The Fleet Street Murders The Fleet Street Murders, by Charles Finch, is the mystery set in London and in northern England in 1867 during the Victorian era. It is the third novel in the Charles Lenox series. While gentleman and amateur detective Charles Lenox is celebrating his engagement to his best friend and neighbor Lady Jane Grey, two journalists are murdered simultaneously across London. Lenox starts to involve himself in this strange case despite hostility from Scotland Yard, but soon must leave it behind to travel to Stirrington, in northern England, where he is running for a