Synopsis
NO HARP FOR MY ANGELWhile in Florida on vacation, Lt. Al Wheeler tangles with——a redhead with green eyes who is “Nobody’s girl but my own!”—her club-owning gangster boyfriend, who is involved in some very shady business…—and his gorilla henchman, who is seven feet of muscle and bone, just waiting for the chance to crush him to a pulp when Al becomes the decoy sent in to bring their racket down. BOOTY FOR A BABEWhen Lt Al Wheeler tries to solve a murder at a science fiction convention——he discovers a professor who wants to stop time by tricking the elusive Delfs…—meets an intellectual gangster who wants to get his hands on the professor’s latest invention…—is frustrated by the generously proportioned convention organizer, who somehow manages to keep one step ahead of Al’s wolfish designs.EVE, IT’S EXTORTIONWhich finds Lt. Al Wheeler trying to solve a hit-and-run murder involving——the victim’s wife, who is all too glad to have lost her lush of a husband…—the beautiful skip-tracer who tracked down the victim right before he met his untimely end… —and her dubious boyfriend who may not be as innocent as he professes, but is certainly up to no good.
About the Author
Alan Geoffrey Yates was born August 1, 1923, in Ilford, England. While serving in the Royal Navy in 1945, he met his future wife, Denise McKellar, and in 1948 the married couple moved to Australia. Yates worked there as a salesman, a newsstand supplier, a film sound recordist and an encyclopaedia salesman before becoming a publicity writer for Qantas Airways. In 1951 he signed a 30-year contract with Horwitz Publishing House, known for its comics and pulp fiction, and eventually turned to writing mysteries, first as Peter Carter Brown, then simply Carter Brown. Yates wrote nearly 300 Carter Brown thrillers, creating five different series characters, including Police Lieutenant Al Wheeler of Pine City. Yates passed away on May 5, 1985, and was posthumously awarded Australia s leading literary award for crime writing, a Ned Kelly, in 1997.
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