Mark is an entrepreneur and crime writer. He is the creator of DCI Frank Merlin, a detective operating in WW2 London. His first two novels, Princes Gate and Stalin’s Gold, are available in paperback and ebook on Amazon. The audio books will be released in August 2015 by Audible. A third Frank Merlin novel is due out in early 2016. For many years he lived and worked in the USA, now dividing his time between London and France.
Mark Ellis tells Counsel how a barrister’s training has helped him realise his long-held ambition to become a writer
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