Michael Angelo Avallone Jr (1924-1999) was a prolific American author who wrote under numerous pseudonyms. His main detective series was written under his own name and features the hardboiled detective Ed Noon. A more detailed bibliography and memoir can be found here. Avallone also has his own fan website here.
Avallone was born in New York and served in the Army in World War II, reaching the rank of Sergeant. He worked as a stationery salesman and an editor before beginning his writing career. He updated the Nick Carter character for a series beginning in the 1960s, and also created the Butcher series.
Among the many pseudonyms that Michael Avallone used (male and female) were: Mile Avalione, Mike Avalone, Troy Conway, Mark Dane, Steve Michaels, Edwina Noone, Priscilla Dalton, John Patrick, Jeanne-Anne dePre, Dorothea Nile, Sidney Stuart, Dora Highland, Stuart Jason, Vance Stanton, Max Walker, and Lee Davis Willoughby.
Bibliography
The Spitting Image (1953)
The Tall Dolores (1953)
Dead Game (1954)
The Case of The Bouncing Betty (1956)
Violence in Velvet (1956)
The Alarming Clock (1957)
The Case of The Violent Virgin (1957)
The Crazy Mixed Up Corpse (1957)
The Voodoo Murders (1957)
Meanwhile Back at the Morgue (1960)
Sinners in White (1961)
The Little Black Book (1961)
Stag Stripper (1961)
Women in Prison (1961)
All the Way (1962)
Flight Hostess Rogers (1962)
Never Love a Call Girl (1962)
Sex Kitten (1962)
The Platinum Trap (1962)
The Bedroom Bolero (1963) aka Bolero Murders
The Living Bomb (1963)
There is Something About a Dame (1963) aka The Nimble Gunner
And Sex Walks in (1963)
Lust at Leisure (1963)
Shock Corridor (1963)
The Doctor's Wife (1963)
Lust is No Lady (1964)
The Brutal Kook (1965)
The February Doll Murders (1967)
Assassins Don't Die in Bed (1968)
The Horrible Man (1968)
The Doomsday Bag (1969)
Missing! (1969)
The Flower covered Corpse (1969)
Killing Star (1969)
Killer's Highway (1970)
Death Dives Deep (1971)
Little Miss Murder (1971)
The Ultimate Client (1971)
The Fat Death (1972)
London Bloody London (1972)
Shoot It Again, Sam (1972)
The Hot Body (1973)
Killer on the Keys (1973)
The Moving Graveyard (1973)
The X Rated Corpse (1973)
Ed Noon in London (1974)
The Girl in the Cockpit (1974)
Kill Her You'll Like it (1974)
The Big Stiffs (1977)
Dark on Monday (1978)
Five Minute Mysteries: Cases from the Files of Ed Noon (1978)
High Noon at Midnight (1988)
Open Season on Cops (1992) aka The Arabella Nude
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