Martin Short (author)
Martin Short is a British TV documentary producer and author. He is best known for his exposés on organized crime and on Freemasonry.Biography
After reading history at Cambridge University, Short worked from 1969 to 1984 on major current affairs programmes for the ITV companies Thames Television, Granada and London Weekend Television and for Channel 4's Dispatches series. In 1998 he presented Charlie Richardson and the British Mafia for Longshot Productions and Channel 4. Short has also completed a television series based on his 1989 book Inside the Brotherhood , for the ITV network with Twenty Twenty Television and Granada.
As a result of his work on Freemasonry, Short made an extended appearance on Channel 4's After Dark television discussion series, and in 1989 was praised by then Labour MP Max Madden in his UK House of Commons Early Day Motions numbers 672 and 673.
Short wrote, produced and narrated the prize winning ITV documentary series on the Mafia in America, Crime Incorporated. To accompany the series he also wrote Crime Inc.: A History of Organized Crime in America. In addition to feature articles for The Times, The Spectator, New Statesman, Punch and Time Out, he co-authored The Fall of Scotland Yard about police corruption in London.Books
- Inside the brotherhood, GUILD PUBLISHING
- The Fall of Scotland Yard, avec Barry Cox et John Shirley, Penguin Books Ltd
- The Enforcer: Secrets of My Life with the Krays, avec Albert Donoghue, John Blake,,
- Blake's Classic True Crime Compendium 2,, avec Tim Brown, Paul Cheston, Ron Farebrother, John Blake,
- Crime Inc., Mandarin,
- Informer, avec Ron Farebrother, Smith Gryphon,
- Lundy, Grafton,
- Survivor : Story of Jimmy Evans,
