Martin Short (author)

Martin John Short (22 September 1943 – 27 August 2020)[1] was a British TV documentary producer and author. He is best known for his exposés on organized crime and on Freemasonry.

For the actor, see Martin Short.

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 (on the Lebanon) and for Channel 4's Dispatches series (on the international arms trade). 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 (Further Secrets of the Freemasons), for the ITV network with Twenty Twenty Television and Granada.[2]

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[3] and 673.[4]

Short wrote, produced and narrated the prize winning[2] 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 (in 1977) The Fall of Scotland Yard about police corruption in London.[2]

Books
  • Inside the brotherhood, GUILD PUBLISHING (1989)
  • The Fall of Scotland Yard, avec Barry Cox et John Shirley, Penguin Books Ltd (August 25, 1977) ISBN 978-0140523188
  • The Enforcer: Secrets of My Life with the Krays, avec Albert Donoghue, John Blake, (August 1, 2002), ISBN 978-1857825251
  • Blake's Classic True Crime Compendium 2, (Blake's True Crime Library), avec Tim Brown, Paul Cheston, Ron Farebrother, John Blake (July 1, 2004), ISBN 978-1857825275
  • Crime Inc., Mandarin (June 15, 1990), ISBN 978-0749307820
  • Informer, avec Ron Farebrother, Smith Gryphon (March 20, 1997), ISBN 978-1856851145
  • Lundy, Grafton (May 21, 1992), ISBN 978-0586209646
  • Survivor : Story of Jimmy Evans, ISBN 9781840184884

References
  1. Martin Short obituary
  2. Page three of Inside the Brotherhood (Further Secrets of the Freemasons), Grafton Books, 1989
  3. Hansard debate by Max Madden, MP for Bradford South, Hansard, 6 April 1989 "That this House congratulates Martin Short on the publication of his book, Inside the Brotherhood; notes that the honourable Members for Ilford South, Croydon South, Chichester, Erewash, Banbury and Belfast North told Mr. Short they were Masons; further notes that Mr. Short believes that the honourable Members for Bury South, Reading East and Keighley are Masons; and finally notes Mr. Short reveals the Masonic Lodge to which Right honourable and honourable Members, Parliamentary Officers and staff belong is called the New Welcome Lodge (5139), which was consecrated in 1929 and meets five times a year at Freemason's Hall in London, and that Parliamentary Journalists who are Mason's belong to the Gallery Lodge (1928).] "
  4. "House of Commons Hansard Debates for 6 Apr 1989". publications.parliament.uk.
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