Completists' Club discussion

George William MacArthur Reynolds (1814 - 1879)
A very prolific writer who is very little known today but most of his fiction was serialised and very popular in his day outselling Dickens and Thackeray.
I have been downloading and reading his Mysteries of London (4 volumes) and it's sequel Mysteries of the Court of London (8 volumes) periodically. A mammoth task. Of course, his writing is nowhere as good as the two above mentioned authors, but is very all encompassing, and he obviously knew London very well.
Although all of the below is attributed to Reynolds,
I believe that a lot of it is by other authors, e.g. I believe only the first 2 volumes of the Mysteries of London are actually by Reynolds.

Apart from the Mysteries of London and the Mysteries of the Court of London, I also have a copy of Wagner the Wehr-Wolf. Most of his fiction is available online. The RM stands for his own magazine Reynolds' Miscellany.

I wonder what kind of job he does with Mr Pickwick.
I assume Pickwick Abroad is a sequel to Dicken's The Pickwick Papers (please correct me if I'm wrong).

The Youthful Imposter (1835)
Pickwick Abroad; or, the Tour in France (1837-8)
Alfred; or, the Adventures of a French Gentleman (1838)
Grace Darling; or, the Heroine of the Ferne Islands (1839)
Robert Macaire in England (alt title: The French Bandit in London) (1839)
The Modern Literature of France (1839) Non-fiction
The Steam Packet: a Tale of the River and Ocean (1840)
Master Timothy's Bookcase (1842)
The Mysteries of London (1844–48) - weekly serial
Faust: A Romance of the Secret Tribunals (1847) (LJ)
Wagner, the Wehr-Wolf (1846-7) (RM)
The Days of Hogarth; or, the Mysteries of Old London (1847–48) (RM)
The Coral Island, or the Hereditary Curse (RM) (later widely pirated under the title The Mysteries of the Court of Naples) (1848)
The Mysteries of the Court of London (1848–56) - weekly serial
The Pixy; or, the Unbaptized Child (1848) (RM)
The Bronze Statue; or, the Virgin's Kiss (1849–50) (RM)
The Seamstress; a Domestic Tale (alt title: The White Slaves of England) (1851) (RM)
Pope Joan, the Female Pontiff (1851) (RM)
Kenneth, a Tale of the Highlands (1851-2) (RM)
The Necromancer (1851-2) (RM)
Mary Price; or the Memoirs of a Servant Girl (1852)
The Massacre of Glencoe, a Historical Tale (1852-3) (RM)
The Soldier's Wife (alt title: The Cat o' Nine Tails)(1852-3)
The Ryehouse Plot; or, Ruth, the Conspirator's Daughter (1853-4) (RM)
Joseph Wilmot; or, the Memoirs of a Manservant (1853-4)
Rosa Lambert; or, the Memoirs of an Unfortunate Woman (alt title: The Memoirs of a Clergyman's Daughter)(1854-5)
Agnes; or, Beauty and Pleasure (1854-5)
Ellen Percy; or, the Memoirs of an Actress (1854-5)
May Middleton; or, the History of a Fortune (1854-5) (RM)
Loves of the Harem (1855)
Omar, a Tale of the War (1855-6) (RM)
Leila; or, the Star of Mingrelia (1856) (RM)
The Empress Eugenie's Boudoir (1856)
Margaret; or, the Discarded Queen (1856-7) (RM)
The Young Duchess (sequel to Ellen Percy) (1856-7)
Canonbury House; or, the Queen's Prophecy (1857-8) (RM)
Mary, Queen of Scots (1858-9)

I forgot to mention that Reynolds' fiction is some of the finest examples of what was known as "The Penny Dreadfuls".