Leothefox’s Reviews > Black Bess; or, the knight of the road: a tale of the good old times > Status Update

In text, Viles warns the reader not to be fooled by a rival publication billed as "A Companion to Black Bess; a Knight of the Road"! Bonny Prince Charlie has returned and our highwaymen have valiantly joined his cause to regain his birthright. Dick went a good long while without Black Bess and I don't know how he could stand it. Also, seems he can't do a robbery without having the law on him right away! More soon.

Lots of Newgate, a daring rescue from the gallows. We've got four highwayman heroes on the run from the dragoons. We've got a Don Quixote level of side drama. Sort of an odd detail: the chapter headers do indicate what is coming up, just not in the chapter they're on.

Looks like it's starting to hit its stride. Dick and Tom King keep finding adventure in creepy basements, abandoned mansions, walled up bodies, smugglers, washed up victims, swarms of dragoons, mistaken identity... did I mention deposed monarchs on the run? Oh! Newgate prison, it's almost like reading Reynolds right now. More later!

Now Dick has a highwayman buddy named Tom King, we get a trial held by criminals, a forced marriage at midnight, and Dick has lost Bess! more later.

There are already a lot of great penny dreadful goodies! Turpin abducted a magistrate, he found a thieves den with a secret cellar full of poison gas, rescued a girl, slipped a trap or two, witnessed a suicide, and there's promise of more mad fun to come! Oh! And there might be a ghost rider, more on that later...