Martin Short is British TV documentary producer and author. He is best known for his exposes on the Mafia and on Freemasonry. Martin Short's two outstanding successes to date have been his thirteen part Thames TV series Crime Inc. about the Mafia, which spawned a Methuen book of the same name which is still in print, and his book on the Freemasons, which has been a bestseller. He later produced a six-part ITV documentary series, titled Inside the Brotherhood.