Carter Brown, real name Alan Geoffrey Yates (1 August 1923 - 5 May 1985), was an Australian-British author of crime fiction. He was born in London but moved to Australia in 1948. He started writing full-time in 1953 and wrote at least 317 novels between 1958 and 1985, mostly crime and detective stories, selling tens of millions of copies. His books, published by Horwitz and Signet, were set in the United States and published throughout the Anglo-phone world. They were also very popular in Europe where they were translated into French, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish, Russian, Finnish, German, Portuguese, Romanian, Dutch. In Asia, some of the novels were translated into Thai.
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