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Thursday 1 November 2012

Boston Globe Obituaries

Many of Mr. Higham’s books met with public skepticism in at least some aspect. In “Howard Hughes: The Secret Life’’ (1993), for instance, his assertions that Hughes had a romance with Cary Grant, was centrally involved in Watergate, offering material assistance to some of the conspirators, and quite possibly died of AIDS, all raised eyebrows in the news media.

But none of his works sent brows quite as high as “Errol Flynn: The Untold Story’’ (1980), in which Mr. Higham asserted that Flynn, who died in 1959, had spied for Germany during World War II.

Though critics faulted the book for building a deductive chain not expressly compelled by the evidence, Mr. Higham defended his methods.