Matthew J Elliott is a British writer and performer who lives in the town that spawned Georgie Fame, author of Lost Horizon James Hilton, Colin “Chariots of Fire” Welland (his actual middle names, believe it or not), and, apparently, the guy who invented the Spinning Jenny during the Industrial Revolution, but never thought to patent it.

Matthew has scripted episodes of The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, The Classic Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Raffles the Gentleman Thief, Kincaid the Strangeseeker and The Adventures of Harry Nile for Seattle-based radio production company Imagination Theater. They also produce Matthew's comedy/whodunnit series The Hilary Caine Mysteries. He has adapted G K Chesterton's Father Brown stories for Boston's Colonial Radio Theatre, and his stage play Jeeves and Wooster was performed at the Palace Theatre, Grapevine, Texas in 2007.

Matthew is the editor of several volumes for Wordsworth Publications in the UK: The Whisperer in Darkness and The Loved Dead by H P Lovecraft, The Right Hand of Doom and The Haunter of the Ring by Robert E Howard and The Charlie Chan Omnibus by Earl Derr Biggers. His articles and fiction have appeared in Scarlet Street, SHERLOCK Magazine and DVD Monthly, and other short stories can be found in the collections Curious Incidents 2, Gaslight Grimoires and The Game's Afoot. 

He's a member of the Crime Writers Association of Great Britain, and has appeared in various UK venues as one-third of The Mystery Men. He lives with his wife Gillian, daughter Megan, two cats and an inexplicably large mortgage.