The Sometime Wife

Danny Boyd

by Carter Brown

Paperback

First published January 1, 1965

About the author

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.

Reviews

[Steven · Rating 2 out of 5]

Quick airplane read. Danny Boyd is the narrator in this one. He's a PI. Less dialog compared to the Al Wheeler and Rick Holman books. Plenty of plot twists as everyone is concealing something from Boyd, and that kept things moving quickly, unfortunately the ending is a bit contrived.

[Drew · Rating 1 out of 5]

Like the other Carter Brown book I read, this book flowed smoothly and quickly. Or should I say, the writing flowed. The story was awful. It was full of stereotypes, contained no plot and was filled with characters who were 0-dimensional, lacking all development or depth. The only good thing I can say about this is that it was a quick read.

[Jure · Rating 4 out of 5]

It's an easy read and with only 120 pages this is a perfect book to take on a plane. Lots of charming craziness in it and I would almost call it cute but there are few nasty (not needed at all) fags remarks and our hero is a kind of obnoxious every now and then.

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