The Crazy Mixed-Up Corpse by Michael Avallone

'She was fully clothed,īut she might as well have been wearing nothing.' 'She was sex like in the Monroe Calendar.' 'She had an aura that was all female, tigress ype.' 'She moved in closer, her burlesque queen hips undulating like Weeks later, a girl bounces out of the elevator. Noon takes three bullets and wakes up in a hospital.

The only others on the street were a blind man and two little kids, Titi and Tania. Fate intervenes in the shape of a Tommy gun firing out of a Packard. Monks to come and pick up his gun and license.īut, being Ed Noon, he never gets there. He then explains what a helluva a day it was although it began with his year of having his license suspended ending with a phone call from Capt It begins with Noon complaining that the day a fur-bearing, gun-toting blonde ordered him to strip was the dizziest day of his career.

He married 1949 Lucille Asero (one son marriage dissolved), 1960 Fran Weinstein (one son, one daughter) died Los Angeles. An unusual entry was the novelization of the 1982 TV mini-series, A Woman Called Golda, the life of Golda Meir.Īmong the many pseudonyms that Michael Avallone used (male and female) were: Mile Avalione, Mike Avalone, Nick Carter, Troy Conway, Priscilla Dalton, Mark Dane, Jeanne-Anne dePre, Dora Highland, Stuart Jason, Steve Michaels, Dorothea Nile, Edwina Noone, John Patrick, Vance Stanton, Sidney Stuart, Max Walker, and Lee Davis Willoughby.įrom 1962-5, Avallone edited the Mystery Writers of America newsletter.

(as in the January 1967 issue of The Saint Magazine), or having died March 1.Īs Troy Conway, Rod Damon: The Coxeman novel series 1967-73, parodied Man from UNCLE. He is sometimes cited incorrectly as the creator of Man from U.N.C.L.E. In late 1960s novellas featured U.N.C.L.E.-like INTREX. Tie-ins included Man from U.N.C.L.E., Hawaii Five-0, Mannix, Friday the 13th Part III, Beneath the Planet of the Apes and even The Partridge Family. The final volume, 'Since Noon Yesterday' is, as of 2005, unpublished. After three dozen more, the most recent was 1989. His first novel, The Tall Dolores 1953 introduced Ed Noon PI. He claimed a lifetime output over 1,000 works, including novels, short stories, articles, published under his own name or 17+ pseudonyms. Michael Angelo Avallone was a prolific American author of mystery and secret agent fiction, and novelizations based on TV and films. Also wrote Nick Carter: Killmaster series under Nick Carter alias with others

The Crazy Mixed-Up Corpse by Michael Avallone