| Ron
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 Ron
Ellis was at Liverpool Polytechnic doing his degree in Librarianship when he became involved in Merseybeat importing records from America for The Beatles, running his own entertainment agency and finally travelling all over the North of England with his own disco roadshow. In 1976, he was appointed Promotions Manager for Warner Bros Records and made the New Wave charts his own band in 1979 with a song he wrote called "Boys on the Dole".
In 1992, The Sun acclaimed him as having the most jobs in Britain (11 at the time) including lecturer (in Creative Writing), teacher, librarian, DJ, actor ("Coronation St., Brookside, etc.), teashop owner, journalist, landlord, area sales manager (for an international legal publishing company) and... author.
Ron still lives on Merseyside with his wife and two teenage daughters. He has a country music show on local radio and covers Southport FC matches for the press. He is a member of tile Crime Writers Association. |
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 Journal of a coffin dodger
The hilarious adventures of an 84 year old man who wants to become a bachelor playboy
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 Playground Pets
When elderly opera 'queen' Max Cadamarteri is found dead in bed with his throat cut open, Detective Chief Inspector Glass is called in to investigate. Glass also has the Police Christmas Party to attend to, which turns out to be a disaster when a blue movie is shown
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 Ears of the City
Matt Scrufford is found dead. Reading about it, Johnny Ace is curious: 30 years earlier he knew a Mal Scrufford. Johnny tracks Mal down to find he is Matt's father. It soon becomes apparent there's more to the mystery than Matt's death.
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 Framed (A Johnny Ace Mystery)
It's an ordinary Thursday evening when Shelly Lunt is found hanging from a light fitting in a flat off Liverpool's Sefton Park. Unfortunately for Johnny Ace (local DJ turned PI) the flat happens to belong to him. Shelley's sister Linda is convinced it isn't suicide and hires Johnny.
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 The Singing Dead
Disc jockey and private investigator Johnny Ace is delighted when he accidentally comes across a tape of previously unreleased material by John Lennon. His delight is short-lived as violence and mayhem ensue - some of it aimed at him!
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 Mean Streets (A Johnny Ace Mystery)
This is the second in this crime series featuring Johnny Ace. Johnny, upon receiving a call from Bert, starts investigating the murder of Bert's son, Bradley. Strangely, Bert is adamant that he will be killed next. But what did Bradley have to hide? And why would that now threaten Bert's life?
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 Grave Mistake (A Johnny Ace Mystery)
When heiress Joanna Smithson is abducted in the car park of Formby Tescos, her businessman father calls in Private Eye Johnny Ace to rescue her. But events race out of control, and Joanna finds herself mistakenly accused of murder.
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 Single Shot
Liverpool DJ and Private Eye is currently working on two cases: the first is to find out who is leaking information from the research department of a major pharmaceutical company, while the second involves a middle aged woman who claims to be being stalked.
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