Michael Avallone

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  • Bibliography:
    49 Books (4 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 1953
  • Latest Book:
    August 1988
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Full Series List in Order

Ed Noon

1 - The Tall Dolores (1953)
2 - The Spitting Image (1953)
3 - Dead Game (1954)
4 - Violence in Velvet (Jan-1956)
5 - The Case of the Bouncing Betty (1957)
6 - The Case of the Violent Virgin (1957)
7 - The Crazy Mixed Up Corpse (1957)
8 - The Voodoo Murders (1957)
9 - Meanwhile Back at the Morgue (1960)
10 - The Alarming Clock (1961)
11 - The Bedroom Bolero (1963)
12 - The Living Bomb (1963)
13 - There Is Something About a Dame (1963)
14 - Lust Is No Lady (1964)
15 - The Fat Death (1966)
16 - The February Doll Murders (1966)
17 - Assassins Don't Die in Bed (1968)
18 - The Horrible Man (1968)
19 - The Flower-Covered Corpse (1969)
20 - The Doomsday Bag (1969)
21 - Little Miss Murder (1971)
22 - Shoot It Again, Sam (1972)
23 - The Girl in the Cockpit (1972)
24 - Kill Her -- You'll Like It (1973)
26 - The Hot Body (1973)
27 - Killer on the Keys (1973)
28 - The X-Rated Corpse (1973)
29 - The Big Stiffs (1977)
30 - Dark on Monday (1978)
31 - High Noon at Midnight (Aug-1988)

The Girl From U.N.C.L.E.

1 - Birds of a Feather (Jan-1966)
2 - The Blazing Affair (1966)

Hawaii Five-O

1 - Hawaii Five-O (1968)
2 - Hawaii Five-O: Terror in the Sun (1969)

Satan Sleuth

1 - Fallen Angel (1974)
2 - The Werewolf Walks Tonight (1974)
3 - Devil, Devil (1975)

Multi-Author Series List

The Girl From U.N.C.L.E.

2 - Birds of a Feather (Jan-1966)

Planet of the Apes

Beneath the Planet of the Apes (Jul-1970)

Book List in Order: 49 titles

  • The Spitting Image

    Ed Noon - 2

    ED NOON MYSTERY #2The Spitting Image"She was a brunette edition, pocket size, but her binding wasn't what you usually found in bookstores." --Ed Noon, Private EyeWhich one of the very famous and beautiful Wexler twins is trying to kill the other in o...

  • The Tall Dolores

    Ed Noon - 1

    ED NOON MYSTERY #1"It's like this. You've been alive about thirty years, been all over the world, know your way around the toughest, biggest cities. You're no pushover. You've had lead dug out of your shoulders, fractured a leg here, and broken an ar...

  • Dead Game

    Ed Noon - 3

    ED NOON MYSTERY #3Dead Game“With a scream, she cut loose. She didn’t know how to handle a gun except for the old fashioned idea that all you had to do was keep pulling the trigger and you were bound to hit something.” --Ed Noon, Private EyeA re...

  • Violence in Velvet

    Ed Noon - 4

    ED NOON MYSTERY #4"Pistol shots have a funny effect on me. I move when I hear them. Even if it isn't always in the right direction." --Ed Noon, Private EyeA Broadway star’s wife is murdered, and her little daughter, the Small Lucille, hires Noon to...

  • The Case of the Bouncing Betty

    Ed Noon - 5

    "The first time I saw Betty she was bouncing. She kept on bouncing right up until the day she died. Why she died was no more important than why she bounced. Because when I found out why Betty bounced, I found out why she died."--Ed Noon, Private Eye<...

  • The Case of the Violent Virgin

    Ed Noon - 6

    ED NOON MYSTERY #7"My eyes met hers and stopped. They had to. You just didn't look into eyes like those and turn away. Her voice was one thing. Her eyes were something else again. And she wasn't looking through me this time. I was getting a long once...

  • The Crazy Mixed Up Corpse

    Ed Noon - 7

    ED NOON MYSTERY #8"The day the fur-bearing, gun-bearing blonde said, 'Strip, Noon. Take of all your clothes!' was the dizziest day of my private-eye life. The day I really got mixed up in the case of the Crazy Mixed-Up Corpse. But I didn't really sta...

  • The Voodoo Murders

    Ed Noon - 8

    ED NOON MYSTERY #9"The hand was quicker than the private eye. Steel gleamed in his fingers magically and a lightning bolt left his brown hands. It flashed across twenty feet and pinned my sleeve to the wall, knocking the gun out of my hand."--Ed Noon...

  • Meanwhile Back at the Morgue

    Ed Noon - 9

    ED NOON MYSTERY #10"It's a ten-o'clock-in-the-morning kind of business where one tiny phone call that sends you off on a case can catapult you into headlines, notoriety and sudden death. But that's show business--and the private investigation racket....



  • The Alarming Clock

    Ed Noon - 10

    ED NOON MYSTERY #5 "That's just one of the reasons I had fallen for her so hard. She had my line of patter, my kind of thinking. I like people who laugh when they're facing a firing squad."--Ed Noon, Private Eye Ed Noon receives...

  • Shock Corridor

  • The Bedroom Bolero

    Ed Noon - 11

    ED NOON MYSTERY #13The Bedroom BoleroFive murdered nude lovelies are all found in rooms painted red, with Ravel’s Bolero playing endlessly on a turntable. The Evil Evelyn, a showbiz phenomenon, is dead center of a bizarre serial killer hunt that ha...

  • The Doctor's Wife

  • The Living Bomb

    Ed Noon - 12

    ED NOON MYSTERY #11"Great life. Guns, girls and trouble. All kinds of trouble. From getting hit on the head to being kidnapped in broad daylight."--Ed Noon, Private Eye<>Ed Noon's career takes a sharp turn when he is hired by the President of the Uni...

  • There Is Something About a Dame

    Ed Noon - 13

  • Lust Is No Lady

    Ed Noon - 14

    ED NOON MYSTERY #14Lust Is No LadyEd Noon’s car blows a tire on Highway 80 in Wyoming, and he is immediately the helpless target for a diving Piper Cub, which bombards him with bricks. He finds Brandy, a naked Indian girl, staked out in the sun, an...

  • The Thousand Coffins Affair

  • Birds of a Feather

    The Girl From U.N.C.L.E. - 1
    The Girl From U.N.C.L.E. - 2

    She moves with trained-to-kill reflexes, clicks with an IBM brain. She's cool, ingenious, and sexy as all get-out. She's a pro from the top of her beautiful head to the tip of her chemically painted toenails. She's My. Waverly's right...

  • Madame X

    Who was the mysterious Madame X? Was she a warm and loving woman with a power to love that went beyond the boundaries of life itself? Or was she a corrupt and wanton creature, little more than a streetwalker, a tool of the lowest dregs of the u...



  • The Blazing Affair

    The Girl From U.N.C.L.E. - 2

  • The Fat Death

    Ed Noon - 15

    ED NOON MYSTERY #15The Fat Death“Beware the Fat Death” reads the thousands of leaflets fluttering down from the sky over Manhattan. A thin man, giant freak, who calls himself the Slim Savior, has begun a huge campaign because he has some idea abo...

  • The February Doll Murders

    Ed Noon - 16

    ED NOON MYSTERY #16The February Doll Murders An international ring of dedicated conspirators has conceived an ingenious plot to sabotage the U.N. The case begins when an old Army buddy of Noon’s contacts him and asks questions about the dollar bill...

  • The Felony Squad

  • The Man From AVON

  • The Coffin Things

    JOURNEY INTO HELL... Death was a dignified occurrence in the town of Roseland. No one became too upset, and there was never an embarrassing display of grief. Death would come to all in time, and there were rules for playing the game. A few discree...

  • Assassins Don't Die in Bed

    Ed Noon - 17

    “All my political savvy can be written on the back of a postage stamp, but I wasn’t going to sit still for another Dallas in my lifetime.." Ed Noon, Private EyeThe President assigns Noon to bodyguard beloved American diplomat Henry Hallmark as he...

  • Hawaii Five-O

    Hawaii Five-O - 1

  • The Horrible Man

    Ed Noon - 18

    “Tony Spanner had known how to live even if he hadn’t known how to die." Ed Noon, Private Eye Alive, playboy Tommy Spanner was known as God’s gift to women. Dead, he was suddenly a prize worth killing over. Ed Noon has mysterious orders from t...

  • Mannix



  • The Doomsday Bag

    Ed Noon - 20

    “The Bagman disappeared at approximately 1:30, and hardly fifteen minutes had gone by before I knew that there was something in it for me." Ed Noon, Private Eye The President’s “Shadow” is missing, and with him the lethal Doomsday Bag -- the ...

  • The Flower-Covered Corpse

    Ed Noon - 19

    “When a man is marked for the bullet that will kill him, it doesn’t seem to matter when it was that you saw him last." Ed Noon, Private EyeThe first bad vibration came when a famous Guru was found swinging on a Greenwhich Village meat hook. The ...

  • Hawaii Five-O: Terror in the Sun

    Hawaii Five-O - 2

  • Missing!

  • Beneath the Planet of the Apes

    Planet of the Apes

    Beneath The Planet Of The Apes ...in the buried ruins of what was once New York City, lived an incredible race of men, mutated beyond belief by the effects of the ancient Holocaust. ...in the ashes of atomic dust, chimpanzees picketed for peace w...

  • Little Miss Murder

    Ed Noon - 21

    “Funny how a tall, cool dame with long, lithe legs and an incredible face can make the hard-boiled breed into so many two minute eggs." Ed Noon, Private EyeIt happened at Shea Stadium: the bases were loaded with disaster, and unless Ed Noon put som...

  • The Girl in the Cockpit

    Ed Noon - 23

    ED NOON MYSTERY #25

    "Like all of us, Ed Noon had read the novel and seen the movie-- but now somebody was running a special version of The Godfather just for him."

    Rich and powerful Giovanni Ricco lay dead in his junkyard. his son Johnny and his...

  • Shoot It Again, Sam

    Ed Noon - 22

    “It was all so simple, really. My assignment. I had come to kill the President of the United States." Ed Noon, Private EyeFor an old movie buff like Ed Noon, escorting the corpse of his favorite movie star to the west coast for burial was a sentime...

  • The Hot Body

    Ed Noon - 26

    ED NOON MYSTERY #28Helen Friday was the loveliest ex-First Lady of them all, and ever since she had gone out of mourning for her assassinated Presidential husband, she had been stepping onto front pages all over the world.Now it was Ed Noon's job to ...

  • Kill Her -- You'll Like It

    Ed Noon - 24

    ED NOON MYSTERY #26The killer called himself the Gingerbread Man and his specialty was slicing strippers. He was working his way through the who's who of flesh peddlers like a hungry moth eating its way through a new suit... until it came to Ada Ven'...



  • Killer on the Keys

    Ed Noon - 27

    ED NOON MYSTERY #27Gregory the Great was the world's greatest violinist. Then he started playing second fiddle to murder at his concerts, and zing snapped the strings of Gregory's mind.Gregory was a candidate for the happy farm now, and it was Ed Noo...

  • The X-Rated Corpse

    Ed Noon - 28

  • Fallen Angel

    Satan Sleuth - 1

  • The Werewolf Walks Tonight

    Satan Sleuth - 2

    “Fletcherville seems to have a wolfman, Sidney. A wolfman who’s already killed four people. And there’s a young girl who’s disappeared. She may be dead by now. In any case, Fletcherville is calling. For me.” Philip St. George, The Satan Sle...

  • Devil, Devil

    Satan Sleuth - 3

    Fighting for reason and right against the Devil and his disciples. Thirteen naked figures writhed in the pale, wan moonlight. A coven in the heart of Manhattan, practicing the rites of the devil. Sister Sorrow, the Bride of Lucifer, led them. Her hyp...

  • Only One More Miracle

  • The Big Stiffs

    Ed Noon - 29

    The President of the United States sent his very Special Private Investigator, Ed Noon, to Rome to pick up an innocuous package. But the enigma of that package and what it held hurled the redoubtable Noon into a fantastic set-piece of espionage, mayh...

  • Dark on Monday

    Ed Noon - 30

  • The Cannonball Run

    It's Reckless! It's Illegal! ...and it really happened! The Cannonball Run...

  • High Noon at Midnight

    Ed Noon - 31



Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Michael Avallone has published 49 books.

Michael Avallone does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, High Noon at Midnight, was published in August 1988.

The first book by Michael Avallone, The Spitting Image, was published in January 1953.

Yes. Michael Avallone has 4 series.
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