This is some information on Carter Brown that I've snipped
out of a review I wrote on his The Body:
Carter Brown is a pseudonym for the prolific Australian crime
writer Alan Yates, who wrote more than 150 novels between
1953 and 1968. Five years after he started writing, over 25
million Carter Brown books were in print. Born in 1923, he
worked in sales and public relation in Australia until he
turned to writing full-time in 1953. From the very beginning
he was incredibly productive. Starting with VENUS UNARMED
(1953), he published an astonishing 8 novels in his first
year. He employed a number of series protagonists. Al
Wheeler, a homicide detective for a small southern California
town, is his most popular hero. He appears for the first time
in THE WENCH IS WICKED (1955). Mavis Seidliz, a private
detective, was his most popular female protagonist. In 1959
Gallimard published him in the famous French Serie Noire
series. With the exception of the ground-breaking mystery
aficionado Anthony Boucher, Brown's novels were ignored by
the critics. Yates was married to Denise Mackellar and they
had one daughter and three sons. In 1966 he began writing
under the name Caroline Farr. He wrote an autobiography in
1983 and died on May 5, 1985.
miker
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