10 Facts About Carter Brown

Carter Brown was the literary pseudonym of Alan Geoffrey Yates, an English-born Australian writer of detective fiction.

Carter Brown was born on 1 August 1923 at Ilford, Essex, England, the only child of Harry Thomas Yates a railway clerk, and his wife Linda Annie, nee Willingale.

Carter Brown was demobilised as a sub-lieutenant in England in January 1947.

Carter Brown wrote some magazine articles and radio scripts that were rejected.

Carter Brown's publisher encouraged him to specialise on crime genre novellas and then full-length detective novels, the first of which was Murder is My Mistress.

Carter Brown wrote westerns under the pseudonym Todd Conway, and science fiction under Paul Valdez.

Carter Brown even found the time to write books under various versions of his own name as well as other pseudonyms, Dennis Sinclair and Sinclair MacKellar.

In reality, Yates was truly prolific with 322 published Carter Brown novels, including multiple series variously featuring protagonists Mike Farrell, Andy Kane, Mavis Seidlitz, Lt.

Carter Brown knows, of course, that it will be no more help than the last Dexedrine tablet but still clings to the naive hope that, somehow, sometime, he will find a way of avoiding the recurrence of his present hopeless situation.

Carter Brown said he chose American settings because Australians preferred them.