Robert Ellis

Robert Ellis is an American author of crime fiction. Ellis was haunted by the murder of a woman near his home when he was young, and compounded with Hitchcock films and the works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle , John Buchan and Dashiell Hammett , his interest in crime fiction would quickly take form. Before he started writing, he worked in film, television and advertising. His decision to become an author when, while gathering surveillance footage of a mobster running for public office, the mobster mistook his camera for a rifle and froze.