Welcome to Murder Mile, a true crime podcast and audio-guided walk featuring many of London's

untold, unsolved and long-forgotten murders, all set within one square mile of the West End.

Today's episode is about David Martin, the gun-loving, sticky-fingered, cross-dressing transgender burglar,

whose bungled arrest led to one of the metropolitan police's worst miscarriages of justice.

Murder Mile contains graphic descriptions of violence, which may upset those who are easily offended,

as well as realistic sounds, so that no matter where you listen to this podcast,

you'll feel like you're actually there.

My name is Michael. I am your tour guide, and this is Murder Mile.

Episode 17, David Martin and the baffling case of the transgender Houdini. Today I'm on Great Mulbra Street in Soho W1.

A mid-sized road which runs parallel with big street I'm on Great Moulbrough Street in Soho W1.

A mid-sized road which runs parallel with Big Street, where the Mad Shoemaker and wannabe cockchopper William Stolzer was arrested,

Broadwick Street, where big-hearted Gingeray was brutally murdered.

And it intersects with Carnaby Street, where the mysterious Margaret Cook was gunned down. Often called Mulbra Street, owing to a clerical era

made on the original Monopoly Board, a mistake which remains today.

Great Mulbra Street was named after John Churchill, the first Duke of Mulbra.

And although Great Mulbara Street was the former home of evolutionist Charles Darwin,

the current home of the Machuda Splendor of the Liberty's store, and the inspiration for

marlborough cigarettes, as it's here where in 1881, Tobacco Baron, Philip Morris, opened

his first cigarette factory. It really is a street which doesn't warrant the prefix of Great,

as today it's little more than a coffee shop filled cut-through for honking taxi drivers and impatient delivery trucks.

But for fans of true crime, this street has one redeeming feature.

As 19 to 21 Great Marlborough Street was once the home of the Mulbara Street Police Station

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