Despard, Leslie
Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.
Working name of UK author John Leslie Despard Howitt (1895-1940), an author mostly of detective stories, though The Amazing Adventures of Mr Henry Button (1927) is an sf tale describing the Invention of a device designed to enforce peace upon the world. Though clearly over-age, he joined the RAF and was shot down in action. [JC]
John Leslie Despard Howitt
born Downham, Norfolk: 7 December 1895
died over Essex: 9 July 1940 [shot down in action]
works
- The Amazing Adventures of Mr Henry Button (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1927) [hb/]
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