Previously a consultant with a Manchester law firm, Martyn Frost is a retired wills and trusts consultant, textbook writer and speaker.
A passionate believer in the importance of history and a lifelong reader of other people’s history books, Murder in Whitehall: a Victorian Assassination that shaped the Insanity Defence is Martyn’s second history book. His first, A Victorian Tragedy: The Extraordinary Case of Banks v Goodfellow was published in 2018.
Martyn lives in Lincoln with his wife Linda and dog Poppy.






