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Hugh Ashton


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Hugh Ashton was born in Ramsgate, Kent, and after graduating from the University of Cambridge, spent some time supporting confused computer users in the NHS and other organisations before moving to Japan to write manuals for audio makers there.\nHe spent 28 years in that country, during which time he met and married his wife Yoshiko, met three Prime Ministers of Japan and wrote letters for two more, worked in a variety of international financial institutions, learned tea ceremony and iaidō (sword drawing), and started his fiction writing career, being published by Inknbeans Press of California.\nIn 2016, family reasons prompted a return to the UK, where he now lives with Yoshiko in the cathedral city of Lichfield. The death of the founder of Inknbeans Press in December 2017 forced him to re-publish his books, along with those of a few others, under his own imprint.\nHe is chiefly known for his Sherlock Holmes pastiches, which have been described as having being written by \

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