tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7527967.post6085730781089753324..comments2024-03-28T18:21:09.285-05:00Comments on Rough Edges: Forgotten Books: The Dance of Death - Carter Brown (Alan G. Yates)James Reasonerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18049917964433932612noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7527967.post-67904413223145137362012-09-15T12:30:14.952-05:002012-09-15T12:30:14.952-05:00I love Carter Brown. I've sought out and read...I love Carter Brown. I've sought out and read a bunch of the non-US Australian-only titles before he signed with Signet and they're really sparse and primitive. According to research unearthed from the NAL files by the Australian researcher, Dr. Toni Johnson-Woods, NAL hired Frank Kane to Americanize the first half dozen or so. By the 1960s Alan Yates had moved to the US and for several years was good friends with Michael Avallone. One of the prize items in my signed first edition collection is a copy of the Carter Brown novel, The Exotic, signed to Avallone on the occasion of Avo's 37th birthday: ""Happy Birthday, Mike. This makes you nearly as old as I am!"--Carter Brown. <br /><br />Yates and Richard S. Prather and Avallone really kept alive that breezy, lighthearted style of hardboiled PIs first developed by Robert Leslie Bellem. Loved 'em all and still do.<br /><br />Stephen MertzAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7527967.post-45111464915938938092012-09-15T00:08:19.611-05:002012-09-15T00:08:19.611-05:00I have in one form or another of the US titles. I ...I have in one form or another of the US titles. I am currently getting the very early UK and Australian pre 1958 and the ones he published before his death. Scotthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08605441026026976297noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7527967.post-32836099953574483082012-09-14T22:09:09.231-05:002012-09-14T22:09:09.231-05:00I probably like the Rick Holman books the best, bu...I probably like the Rick Holman books the best, but really the only ones I didn't care for that much were the ones with Mavis and the later ones that had more graphic sex shoehorned into them.James Reasonerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18049917964433932612noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7527967.post-7037412423187203982012-09-14T19:39:38.077-05:002012-09-14T19:39:38.077-05:00Art Scott owns a complete set of the CARTER BROWN ...Art Scott owns a complete set of the CARTER BROWN series with Robert McGinnis covers. Of course, there were non-McGinnis CARTER BROWNs published in the 1950s.Georgehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04546161337366365635noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7527967.post-53111667992445649392012-09-14T18:49:46.239-05:002012-09-14T18:49:46.239-05:00I really enjoyed the Carter Brown books, especiall...I really enjoyed the Carter Brown books, especially the Danny Boyd series. Also m enjoyed the McGinnis covers, and am still buying them on abebooks for the covers.<br /><br />RJRRJRhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17534166025889599640noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7527967.post-63245651683261260442012-09-14T11:11:29.835-05:002012-09-14T11:11:29.835-05:00The McGinnis covers were the first things I ever n...The McGinnis covers were the first things I ever noticed about the books, that's for sure.James Reasonerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18049917964433932612noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7527967.post-57392940993765943262012-09-14T10:51:23.190-05:002012-09-14T10:51:23.190-05:00It says typpe the two words but the second "w...It says typpe the two words but the second "word" looks like a spot of dirt! <br /><br />I often thought the key to the success of the Carter Brown books were those sexy McGinnis covers.bebnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7527967.post-28210368354052511142012-09-14T10:13:32.542-05:002012-09-14T10:13:32.542-05:00Loved them once upon a time. Loved them once upon a time. pattinase (abbott)https://www.blogger.com/profile/02916037185235335846noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7527967.post-68142966202897263432012-09-14T06:27:05.707-05:002012-09-14T06:27:05.707-05:00James, it's my understanding that Silverberg w...James, it's my understanding that Silverberg wrote four novels for the Carter Brown series and that Silverberg himself has no idea whether they were actually published. Any records and manuscripts are now presumably lost. The Yates estate (I believe) has insisted that all books published under the Carter Brown name were written by him.<br /><br />In any case, the Brown books are fast and fun. I used to read a couple a day as a de-stressor when I was in college.Jerry Househttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09482856733981933159noreply@blogger.com