Sir, I am the ghost writer of Ruth Ellis My Sister's Secret Life by Muriel Jakubait with Monica Weller. Fifty years ago Ruth Ellis was the last woman to be hanged in Britain. She was convicted for shooting her lover David Blakely. It has taken considerable effort stripping away the fact from the fiction in Ruth's story.

Although our book was published in July 2005 I am carrying out further research about George Johnston Ellis, the dentist who Ruth married in 1950. I am hoping that readers of the BDJ may have some useful information and recollections about him.

If this helps, George was born in 1909, graduated from Manchester School of Dentistry in 1933, had a practice on Sanderstead Hill in Surrey until 1950, became a school dentist in Warrington until 1955 and apparently committed suicide in 1958 in a Jersey hotel. During and just after the Second World War he was a regular customer at the White Hart Hotel, Brasted in Kent which was known as the unofficial HQ of the Battle of Britain pilots.

Please write to me in confidence c/o our publisher:

For the personal attention of Monica Weller, c/o Constable and Robinson, 3 The Lanchesters, 162 Fulham Palace Road, London, W6 9ER

or email: monicaweller13@hotmail.com.

Thank you.