Carter Brown

Carter Brown

Carter Brown (1 August 1923 - 5 May 1985), real name Alan Geoffrey Yates, was a British-Australian author of crime fiction. He was born in London but moved to Australia in 1948. He started writing full time in 1953 wrote as many as 150 crime stories, selling tens of millions of copies. His books were set in the United States but were more popular in Europe.

Awards

* 1997 - Ned Kelly Award for Lifelong Contributioncite web |title= Ned Kelly Awards |publisher= Australian Crime Fiction Database |url= http://www.crimedownunder.com/nedkellyawards.html |accessdate= 2007-09-15]

Bibliography

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)

Autobiography

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

Notes

External links

* [http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/cbrown.htm Carter Brown biography and descriptions of his books]
* [http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/b/carter-brown/ Carter Brown] at Fantasticfiction.co.uk
* [http://www.iblist.com/author15797.htm Carter Brown] at Internet Book List (incomplete bibliography)


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