Carter Brown for Horwitz
The Million Dollar Babe. 1st ed. London ; Sydney: Horwitz, 1962; The Million Dollar Babe. 2nd ed. London ; Sydney: Horwitz, 1963; My Darling is Deadpan. 2nd ed. London ; Sydney: Horwitz, 1958; The Lady is Not Available. 1st ed. London ; Melbourne: Horwitz, 1963; The Lady is Available. London ; Melbourne: Horwitz, 1968; No Tears from the Widow. 2nd ed. London ; Sydney: Scripts, 1967; Shroud for my Sugar. 1st Pocket ed. London ; Sydney: Horwitz, 1955; The Brazen. 1st ed. London ; Melbourne: Horwitz, 1960; Blonde on the Rocks. 1st ed. London ; Melbourne: Horwitz, 1963; No Blonde is an Island. Sydney: Horwitz, 1965; The Ice Cold Nude. 2nd ed. London ; Melbourne: Horwitz, 1963; The Loving and the Dead. 1st ed. London ; Melbourne: Horwitz, 1959; Model of No Virtue. 1st Pocket ed. London ; Sydney: Horwitz, 1956; The Dum Dum Murders. 1st ed. Sydney: Horwitz, 1962; Delilah was Deadly. 1st Pocket ed. London ; Sydney: Horwitz, 1956; Hellcat. London ; Sydney: Horwitz, 1962; A Bullet for My Baby. London ; Sydney: Horwitz,1955; So What Killed the Vampire? Sydney: Horwitz, 1966.
The major series for Horwitz Publishers was ‘Carter Brown’. ‘Carter Brown’ in real life was an English migrant named Alan Geoffrey Yates (1923-1985). In her book PULP, Toni Johnson-Woods estimates Yates wrote 297 books and sold 80 million copies, giving him a walk-up start in any discussion about Australia’s most popular but least-known authors.
Prior to his ‘Carter Brown’ persona, Yates wrote westerns, romances, and sci-fi, using pseudonyms such as ‘Paul Valdez’ and ‘Tex Conrad’. The first ‘Carter Brown’ – Lovely – appeared in 1951; by 1955 sale boasts were 10 million. On display are just a few of the Horwitz titles.*
*full call references are in the ‘Pulp Fiction’ hand-list.