His publisher encouraged him to specialise on crime genre novellas and then full-length detective novels, the first of which was Murder is My Mistress (1954). Soon he was also writing for Horwitz Publications where he authored horror, science-fiction and detective stories, published under the pen names of ‘Paul Valdez’ and ‘Tod Conway’.
In his spare time he wrote a western, which was accepted by Invincible Press, where he was paid £20, or £ words.
as a publicity writer where he produced their monthly flight magazine as well as the staff journal. The couple returned to Australia in 1948.Īfter working as a salesman, wine company clerk and newsagent supplier, Yates joined Qantas Empire Airways Ltd. He wrote some magazine articles and radio scripts that were rejected. In England he went back to British Acoustic Films as a sound cameraman, a job he found unrewarding.
They married on 3 June 1946 at St Chad’s Church of England, Cremorne, New South Wales. On leave in Sydney in 1945 he had met 18-year-old Denise Sinclair MacKellar. He was demobilised as a sub-lieutenant in England in January 1947. After he was commissioned in February 1945, he spent eighteen months in the light cruiser, HMS Euryalus, in the East Indies Fleet and British Pacific Fleet where he first visited Australia. Alan worked for British Acoustic Films where he converted films from 35mm to 16mm.Įnlisting in the Royal Navy in September 1942, he served aboard Landing Craft Support (Large) 504 on operations that included the Normandy landings on June 6, 1944. He 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, née Willingale. Between 19 Yates published 215 ‘Carter Brown’ novels and some 75 novella-length stories. Carter Brown was the literary pseudonym of Alan Geoffrey Yates (1 August 1923 – 5 May 1985), an English-born Australian writer of detective fiction.
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