This time there's a photo cover and the sweater is red. The tight, white sweater and the lifted arm emphasize her other physical qualities.Īvallone followed that book with The Spitting Image (1953), another Ed Noon mystery. I guess the low point of view on the cover illustration is to emphasize the woman's height. Michael Avallone's first book was The Tall Delores (1953), a detective novel starring Ed Noon. In any case, Michael Avallone, born a generation too late for the pulps, died in Los Angeles on February 26, 1999. There doesn't seem to have been any moderate opinion on Avallone and his work. According to the I nternet Speculative Fiction Database, Avallone's first published science fiction or fantasy was 'The Man Who Walked on Air' in Weird Tales, September 1953. Not bound to any particular genre, Avallone wrote science fiction, fantasy and horror, Gothic fiction, Westerns, thrillers, mysteries, soft porn, sports stories, children's books, and adaptations from television shows, including The Man from U.N.C.L.E., Hawaii Five-O, Mannix, and The Partridge Family.

He called himself 'The Fastest Typewriter in the East' and said that he would rather write than eat or sleep. Part of the confusion comes from Avallone's use of more than a dozen pseudonyms. No one knows how many books he wrote, but it was upwards of 150. Born in New York City on October 27, 1924, Michael Angelo Avallone, Jr., was an army veteran of World War II and a seller of stationery before he got into the business of writing fiction. Another in that group was Michael Avallone. Tubb-who penned novelizations of television shows. I have written recently about a couple of authors- Murray Leinster and E.C.

The Craghold Creatures by Edwina Noone