Many thanks and appreciation to Juri, Miker, and Mr. Borgers
for the good background bio. on Carter Brown. My title uses
the Al Wheeler protagonist.
I wonder why the reliable Boucher was the only critic to give
Carter Brown's work any notice?
Ed
--- Michael Robison <
miker_zspider@yahoo.com> wrote:
> 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.
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