Carter Brown was originally a British citizen, and around the
mid-fifties he emigrated to Sidney were he lived and started
to write what are mostly parodies of H-B. Humor is his goal.
But... often badly written or even lacking tempo. On the
other side he created a gallery of really funny characters
and in some novels of his very prolific production you may
find real humor. He always pretended he did not use shadow
writers, but this is still an open question as he produced
more than 200 titles ! Often he published 10 novels a year.
He died in 1985.
His real name was: Alan Yates.
And you're right: he used a lot of good titles, very
colorful, and close to the "spirit" of those seen on the
noir/h-b novels of the sixties. Other titles were just
humorous.
E.Borgers Hard-Boiled Mysteries http://www.geocities.com/Athens/6384
Ed Lynskey :
> I picked up Carter Brown's LAMENT FOR A LOUSY LOVER
(good noir
> title)(NAL, 1960). I've never read anything by this
author. Is
> Carter Brown a pseudonym? I spot a Boucher blurb on
it.
>
>
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