Bio:Howard Jones (1906-1975)

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Howard Jones (1906- ) A novelist, short story author and writer of radio and TV scripts, Stanley Howard Jones lived in the Sussex countryside where he was said to umpire village cricket matches. Jones made his debut in the Evening News in 1934 and contributed 197 stories over the next forty years. He also contributed short fiction to the magazines John O'London's Weekly, Argosy, John Bull and Blighty as well as the London newspaper The Star. His stories tended to have international settings, with Asia and the South Pacific in particular providing the backdrop for a number of his plots. Some of the stories he wrote in this vein were published in the collection Tropical Tales (1951). He wrote a number of adventure novels, including Earth's Moving Shadow (1951), The Web of Caesar (1962) and Falconsdale (1973).