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Rick Holman
The Jade-Eyed Jungle
Also released as: The Jade-Eyed Jinx.
125 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published January 1, 1963
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About the author
Carter Brown
557 books52 followersCarter 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.
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.
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September 5, 2019
Reading the Carter Brown series is rocky. With multiple authors from wildly different points of view, you never quite know what you're going to get. Unfortunately, The Jade-Eyed Jungle has a mean-streak of misogyny running through it that I just couldn't stomach.
It has a good setup, but I can't speak to the structure of the book or the resolution of the mystery as I had to put it down about halfway through. Depiction may not be endorsement, but man the protagonist in this book hates women, and it's hard not to see that as the author either conveying his own views or catering to his baser readerships' views. Either way, avoid this one if you prefer your detective pulps non-toxic.
It has a good setup, but I can't speak to the structure of the book or the resolution of the mystery as I had to put it down about halfway through. Depiction may not be endorsement, but man the protagonist in this book hates women, and it's hard not to see that as the author either conveying his own views or catering to his baser readerships' views. Either way, avoid this one if you prefer your detective pulps non-toxic.
January 2, 2022
This is the fourth of 35 in the Rick Holman series and the second one that I've read. Plot here is pretty much the same as Murder in the Key Club: Holman is hired and the jerk who hires him spends the whole book doing an end-around Holman, which begs the point of why hire him in the first place? Never explained. Throughout, Holman snarls a lot of dialogue that goes nowhere, investigates without investigating, and, spoiler alert, but not really because there are 31 more of these Holman books to follow, he wins the concluding gun battle, which is the only action in this 125 page book. Carter Brown (pseudo for Alan Yates) had a gazillion books in print in the 50s, 60s, and 70s. I've yet to hear from a true fan, so keep trying these out to see what the excitement was all about. Answer not found in The Jade-eyed Jungle.
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