Carter Brown

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Carter Brown, real name Alan Geoffrey Yates (1 August 1923 - 5 May 1985), was an Australian-British author of crime fiction. He was born in London but moved to Australia in 1948. He started writing full time in 1953 and wrote at least 317 novels between 1958 and 1985, mostly crime and dective stories, selling tens of millions of copies. His books, published by Horwitz and Signet, were set in the United States and published throughout the Anglo-phone world. They were very popular in Europe where they were translated into French, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish, Russian, Finnish, German, Portuguese, Romanian, Dutch. In Asia, some of the novels were translated into Thai.[1]

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[edit] Awards

[edit] Selected bibliography

[edit] Novels

  • Dead dolls don't cry : Widow is willing ; Blackmail for a brunette (Horwitz Publications)
  • Zelda : and The wind-up doll (Horwitz Grahame, 1982, c1961)
  • The scarlet flush (Horwitz, 1963)
  • The brazen, and The stripper (Horwitz, 1981)

Chill on Chili, Butterfly Nett, and Honky Tonk Homicide: (Horwitz)
Curves For A Coroner (Horwitz)
The Two-Timing Blonde (Horwitz)

[edit] Autobiography

  • Ready when you are, C.B.! : the autobiography of Alan Yates alias Carter Brown (Macmillan, 1983)

[edit] Criticism

  • Toni Johnson-Woods, 'The Promiscuous Carter Brown', in JASAL Special Issue, The Colonial Present, 2008, pp. 163–183. Available online [3]

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ "AustLit Carter Brown entry". http://www.austlit.edu.au/run?ex=ShowAgent&agentId=A{L. Retrieved 2010-05-05. 
  2. ^ "Ned Kelly Awards". Australian Crime Fiction Database. http://www.crimedownunder.com/nedkellyawards.html. Retrieved 2007-09-15. 
  3. ^ Johnson-Woods, Toni. "The Promiscuous Carter Brown". JASAL Special Edition The Colonial Present. Association for the study of Australian literature. http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/63067/20090910-1633/www.nla.gov.au/openpublish/index.php/jasal/article/view/741/983.html. Retrieved 2011-05-05. 

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