Pelham is an 1828 novel by the British writer Edward Bulwer-Lytton, originally published in three volumes.

It is part of the tradition of silver fork novels that enjoyed great popularity in the late Regency and early Victorian eras.

It follows the adventures of Henry Pelham, a young dandy, in Paris, London and the fashionable spa town of Cheltenham.

[1] The book was an enormous success across Europe, where it was translated into several languages, and was admired by Walter Scott, Benjamin Disraeli and George IV.

[3] Although the novel is light-hearted for much of the first three-quarters, in the latter stages it transforms into a murder mystery with Gothic overtones.