An ice-cold wife, a fiery mistress, and the dead man neither mourns put police lieutenant AL WHEELER hot on the trail of MURDER. In this sizzler, the free-and-easy Californian tangles with a hot-shot lawyer, a hot-headed mobster, and a hotblooded redhead-all dynamite... at close range.
Carter Brown was the pseudonym of Alan Geoffrey Yates (1923-1985), who was born in London and educated in Essex.
He married Denise Mackellar and worked as a sound engineer for Gaumont-British films before moving to Australia and taking up work in public relations.
In 1953 he became a full-time writer and produced nearly 200 novels between then and his retirement in 1981.
He also wrote as Tex Conrad and Caroline Farr.
His series heroes were Larry Baker, Danny Boyd, Paul Donavan, Rick Holman, Andy Kane, Randy Roberts, Mavis Siedlitz and Al Wheeler.