"Pelham — Volume 04" by Baron Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton is part of a novel published in 1828. Following young dandy Henry Pelham through fashionable society in Paris, London, and Cheltenham, this silver fork novel transforms from lighthearted social satire into Gothic murder mystery. When Pelham's old friend faces execution for murder, only Pelham can uncover the true killer—pioneering elements that would inspire Edgar Allan Poe and the detective genre. (This is an automatically generated summary.)