The Reflexive Carter Brown, or the Prescience of *Last Note for a Lovely*

Title: The Reflexive Carter Brown, or the Prescience of *Last Note for a Lovely*
Creator: Rolls, Alistair; Sitbon, Clara
Relation: Australian Literary Studies Vol. 36, Issue 3
Publisher Link: http://dx.doi.org/10.20314/als.9fd4ba4892
Publisher: University of Queensland Press
Resource Type: journal article
Date: 2021
Description: Despite Carter Brown’s status as the least known of Australia’s most successful authors, research has been done on his productions, his style, and his bibliography. This work, by its very nature, often precludes close reading of a traditional kind. A certain amount is known for example, of the purchase of the international rights to the Carter Brown mystery series by American publisher Signet in 1958, but no work has been done on the effects that this shift may have had on the novels themselves. This article proposes to read Last Note For a Lovely, a novel published the year before the deal with Signet was signed, in order to lay the foundations for future analyses of subsequent Carter Brown novels published after 1958. The reflexivity of this novel is such that the characters appear at times to be voicing the concerns of Alan Yates, the writer behind Carter Brown.
Subject: Carter Brown; mystery series; novels; future analyses
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1476283
Identifier: uon:49789
Identifier: ISSN:1837-6479
Language: eng
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