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Enemies of the State: The Cato Street Conspiracy Paperback – February 24, 2022
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- Print length192 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherPen and Sword Military
- Publication dateFebruary 24, 2022
- Dimensions6 x 0.75 x 9 inches
- ISBN-101399013815
- ISBN-13978-1399013819
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Among his recent publications are lives of Boudicca, Vlad the Impaler, Kit Marlowe, the hero of the Charge of the Light Brigade, Captain William Morris, War Crimes: Underworld Britain in the Second World War and The Cato Street Conspiracy.
He has produced several best-selling accounts of criminal cases, in particular volumes on Derek Bentley, the Wigwam Murder and Jack the Ripper, but he is perhaps best known for his many novels which include the Lestrade and Maxwell series.
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- Publisher : Pen and Sword Military (February 24, 2022)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 192 pages
- ISBN-10 : 1399013815
- ISBN-13 : 978-1399013819
- Item Weight : 12.2 ounces
- Dimensions : 6 x 0.75 x 9 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #6,101,292 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #7,700 in Historical British Biographies
- #11,096 in Crime & Criminal Biographies
- #36,915 in Great Britain History (Books)
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M J Trow (the 'M' as most people know by now stands for Meirion, a Welsh name few can manage, so he writes as M J, is known by all and sundry as Mei, rhyming with 'my') has been writing for many years, with his first book - The Adventures of Inspector Lestrade - being published in 1984 by Macmillan. More Lestrades followed and then some true crime and somehow it all snowballed so now he has many historical biographies and three other crime series (Maxwell, Marlowe and Grand and Batchelor, the latter two written with his wife, writing as Maryanne Coleman, though her name is Carol, actually!) to his credit. He claims to be retired, but that's just from teaching. In fact he has never been busier and is a sought after 'ghost' these days as well as historian and novelist, with many different subjects' stories having been told through him. He has recently started collaborating on fiction projects (with someone other than his wife, that is) and finds it a really exciting and pleasurable experience.
To relax he ... actually, that's a bit tricky, as he doesn't really ever relax. He has been known to garden, he is a keen cook and artist and likes to travel. This is rather easier these days as he is a popular speaker on cruise ships - in fact his profile picture was taken on a very gusty day in Cape Town, setting off on a long voyage home to Southampton through some of the scariest seas he and his wife have had the pleasure to meet! It really was the calm before the storm, despite being a Force 9 just leaving the Bay.
Family is important and he is very proud of his wife, Carol (aka Maryanne Coleman) for her own books and also the ones they write together, the Kit Marlowe series. His son, Taliesin, known as Tali, is a writer who has written a biography of the Tudor explorer Martin Frobisher as well as collaborating with Mei on several biographies. An exciting series is in the melting pot at the moment and will hopefully be appearing soon; remember where you heard it first. Tali is also a musician, playing various instruments with some acclaimed bands; Gemma Hayes, the Coal Porters, Circulus and currently acid-folk ensemble The Lords of Thyme. He also records and tour-manages. His crystal vocals enhance everything he does and it's just as well someone in the family can sing, as it is the first thing anyone asks a Welshman!
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Ah poor Arthur.
As he stood on the gallows in front of a vast crowd on Mayday 1820, with four other companions, all of them noosed and pinioned, he may have thought to himself "well at least I'll be remembered". Not by many, Arthur, not by many. Which is more than surprising because the reason he was about to be launched into eternity was as the leader of a plot to assassinate the whole British Cabinet.In the event, like the Gunpowder Plot of 1605, it was really something of a set-up by the establishment. Arthur and his cohorts had been entrapped by an agent provocateur and on the evening of the intended massacre they found themselves quickly rounded up by The Bow St Runners and soldiers from the Coldstream Guards. All over bar the May arrangements outside Newgate Prison I'm afraid.
This book is an excellent account of the events which led up (via The Peterloo Massacre) to the arrests in Cato St, the scene of which exists to this day just off London's Edgeware Rd.
It may be some grisly consolation to Thistlewood et al, that he did not swing completely into oblivion.