Markman Ellis Books

Stalin's Gold is the latest in the Frank Merlin Series, and follows on from Princes Gate.

Princes Gate is the first in a new series of crime thrillers that involve DCI Frank Merlin. These atmospheric books are set in wartime London mixing historical and fictional characters and featuring a charismatic and intriguing half-Spanish detective.

Long-listed for the CWA Historical Dagger Award 2018 Summer 1941. Four violent deaths, French double agents, daring fraud - DCI Frank Merlin sets out on his most complex case yet.

Studies the reading habits of a group of historians and science administrators known as the Hardwicke Circle. The research is based on an analysis of the reading recorded in the 'Weekly Letter', an unpublished private correspondence written from 1741 to 1766 between Thomas Birch and Philip Yorke, later second earl of Hardwicke.