Tue 6 May 2008
Addenda to CRIME FICTION IV – Part 27, with Comments on CARTER BROWN.
Posted by Steve under Crime Fiction IV[4] Comments
Uploaded this morning, about 10 minutes ago, with no links or cover images added yet, is Part 27 of the ongoing online Addenda to the Revised Crime Fiction IV, by Allen J. Hubin.
I haven’t had a chance to look through this new set of addenda carefully myself, but I recognize quite a few of the pieces of information that I’ve sent Al in the last few weeks, including data he didn’t have about some of the British espionage paperbacks I bought at the Windy City show. Lots of newly discovered settings from other sources too, along with new authors, titles and series characters, not to mention newly discovered new editions with title changes, plus a few deletions and other corrections too.
I’ve fallen behind in the annotations which I do for the Addenda, adding images and links and so on, but as I get to them, I’ll be posting them here, as I always do. More later, in other words!
[UPDATE.] Later the same day. The comments that follow were produced by Al’s statement in this installment of the Addenda that:
BROWN, CARTER. Note: Some books published around 1960 may have been written by authors other than [Alan Geoffrey] Yates.
This doesn’t entirely agree with the rumors I’ve heard, which have suggested that it was the later ones that Yates may not have written. (His books began to appear in the US in 1957 or 1958, then continued until 1984 or so. Yates died in 1985.)
See the comments for more.
May 6th, 2008 at 4:05 pm
Re: Carter Brown. Robert Silverberg wrote four novels under that by-line, but it is not known whether they were ever published. From this I assume that others in the Scott Meredith factory also contributed to the series.
May 6th, 2008 at 4:30 pm
I once asked Robert Silverberg about his novel-length crime fiction, and his answer did not include any Carter Brown’s, even though CB was semi-implied in the question.
That does not mean, of course, that he did not write any. If he did, as you suggest, I suspect they were not published.
As to who did write some of the later ones, if Yates did not do them all, that is a question as yet without answers, as far as I know.
May 6th, 2008 at 4:40 pm
I asked Robert Silverberg about his contribution to Carter Brown and he insists that they weren’t published. In fact, all rumours about “other” CB authors have failed to be substantiated. I’m meeting with Denise Yates (widow of Alan G) and family later this week in Sydney; Denise insists they were all his/their work. And I’ve failed to locate Signet archives post 1961. Darn.
May 6th, 2008 at 4:49 pm
Thanks, Toni. Keep us posted, if you would!
Steve