Revolutionary. Conspirator. Jail-breaker. Fugitive. Duellist. Radical. And Killer.
The true tale of one of nineteenth-century London's most notorious murderers -a man immortalised on the French barricades of Les Miserables, but whose life story has never before been told.
It is 8 December, 1854. And our hero and villain - Emmanuel BarthUlemy - is visiting a man at 73 Warren Street, in the heart of radical London, for the very last time.
It is a dank, freezing-cold night, and BarthUlemy has plenty on his mind. In his pocket is a ticket for travel to the continent- his plan, to assassinate the Emperor of the French. But half an hour later two innocent men would be dead.
The newspapers of Victorian England were soon in a frenzy- Who was this exotically named foreigner, come to its shores from the terrifying revolutions of Paris to brutally slay two upstanding British subjects?
The Murderer of Warren Street shines a light into a dark underworld of conspiracy, insurrection and fatal idealism. Following in BarthUlemy's footsteps, Oxford historian Marc Mulholland leads us from the clamour of the French capital to the icy rooftops of a Parisian jail and on to the fireside of Karl Marx, a misty duelling ground and the dangling noose of London's Newgate prison as he unravels the mystery of this illusive man.
