![]() Soon Yates started to concentrate on crime fiction, producing a flood of books: in 1953 he published Venus Unarmed, The Lady Is Chased, The Frame Is Beautiful, Fraulein Is Female, Wreath for Rebecca, The Black Widow, Weeps, and The Penhouse Passout. Bleek, but his major work in science fiction was Coriolanus The Chariot!, a story about illusions, paranoia, and a toxic game. For the magazine Thrills Incorporated he co-wrote tales with G.C. Yates wrote crime, horror stories, and westerns under the pen name of Tex Conrad. His early books were intended for Australian audiences, but when the Carter Brown series was picked up by the New American Library, he was discovered by Americans. ![]() Before deciding to write exclusively in 1953, he was a salesman in Sydney and a public relations staff member at Quatas Empire Airways. After the war he worked as a sound recordist at Gaumont-British Films for two years and then moved to Australia in 1948.That same year he became an Australian citizen. From 1942 to 1946 he served in the Royal Navy as a lieutenant. ![]() Carter Brown, the pseudonym of Alan Geoffrey Yates, was born in London and educated at schools in Essex. ![]()
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