Stories, and westerns under the name of Tex Conrad. In the beginning of his career, Yates penned crime, horror Married with Denise Sinclair Mackellar they had one daughter and three – Yates lived in theįashionable Sydney suburb of St Ives and worked from home. Science fiction was Coriolanus, the Chariot! (1978), a storyĪbout illusions, paranoia, and a toxic game. Novel under his own name, The Cold Dark Hours, and in 1966Īppeared the first novels written as Caroline Farr. Peter Cheyney, Horace McCoy, Jonathan Latimer, Dashiell Hammett, Which introduced to French readers such writers as James Hadley Chase, In France, Gallimardīegan to publish Carter Brown's works from 1959 in Série Noire, Illustrated by Barye Phillips and Robert McGinnis. When Carter Brown series was picked up by Signet, he found Mysteries for Horwitz's Scientific Thriller series. Were intended only for Australian audience. Public relations staff member at Quatas Empire Airways. Before devoting himselfĮntirely to writing from 1953, Yates was a salesman in Sydney and a The same year, he became an Australian citizen. Gaumont-British Films for two years and moved to Australia in 1948. After the war, he worked as a sound recordist at From 1942 to 1946, he served in the Royal I figured it was about sex, but I got gypped.'Ĭarter Brown was born Alan Geoffrey Yates in London andĮducated at schools in Essex. 'Once,' I said, 'to get in out of the rain. Parker's famous private detective Spencer. Yates's novels had light atmosphereĪnd his heroes could deliver more wise-guy remarks than Robert B. Were set in the Unites States, but Carter Brown series never became His last books appeared in the early 1980's. Stories, with sales in the tens, perhaps hundreds of millions ofĬopies. Yates poured from his typewriter between 1953-68 under the name Who also wrote as Caroline Farr, Tom Conway and Paul Valdez zip of the website is also available.Ĭarter Brown (1923-1985) - Pseudonym for Allan Geoffrey Yates, All pages are unmodified as they originally appeared some links and images may no longer function. The original website was published by Petri Liukkonen under Creative Commons BY-ND-NC 1.0 Finland and reproduced here under those terms for non-commercial use. A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

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