Hugh Cecil Asterley (10 May 1902 â 1973) was a British writer and colonial administrator, who wrote crime and mystery stories and novels, usually with a south-east Asian setting, as H. C. Asterley.
Asterley was born in Souldrop, Bedfordshire.
Asterley was a civil servant, who spent much of his career in Singapore.
His first novel, Rowena Goes Too Far was published in 1931. A bestseller in the UK, it was banned in Australia due to customs belief that it âÂÂlacked sufficient claim to the literary to excuse the obscenityâÂÂ.
His 1961 novel, Escape to Berkshire, was a change in style, being a post-nuclear war survival novel about the destruction of, and escape from, London.