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Michael Avallone

Michael Angelo Avallone Jr., more commonly known as Michael Avallone, is a prolific American author with a focus on mystery and secret agent fiction, as well as novelizations based on TV and films. He was born in New York City and went on to become a celebrated author with a vast output of work. Over the course of his career, Avallone claims to have written over 1,000 works, including novels, short stories, and articles, all of which were published under his own name or one of his many pseudonyms.

Avallone's first novel, "The Tall Dolores," was published in 1953 and introduced the world to Ed Noon, PI. Over the next few decades, Avallone wrote over three dozen more novels featuring Ed Noon, with the final volume, "Since Noon Yesterday," remaining unpublished as of 2005. In addition to his original works, Avallone also penned numerous tie-in novels for popular TV shows and films, including "The Man from U.N.C.L.E.," "Hawaii Five-0," "Mannix," "Friday the 13th Part III," and "Beneath the Planet of the Apes." He even wrote a novelization of the 1982 TV mini-series "A Woman Called Golda," which chronicled the life of Golda Meir.

Avallone's prolific output extended to his use of pseudonyms, as he wrote under at least 17 different names throughout his career. Some of his most notable pseudonyms include Sidney Stuart, Dorothea Nile, Edwina Noone, Priscilla Dalton, Troy Conway, Vance Stanton, Mark Dane, Steve Michaels, Lee Davis Willoughby, Max Walker, John Patrick, Jeanne-Anne dePre, Mike Avalone, Dora Highland, and Stuart Jason. Under the name Troy Conway, Avallone wrote the Rod Damon: The Coxeman novel series from 1967 to 1973, which parodied the popular "Man from U.N.C.L.E." series.

In addition to his work as an author, Avallone also served as the editor of the Mystery Writers of America newsletter from 1962 to 1965. He was married twice, first to Lucille Asero in 1949 (with whom he had one son before the marriage dissolved), and later to Fran Weinstein in 1960 (with whom he had one son and one daughter). Avallone passed away in Los Angeles.
The Butcher Books (as Stuart Jason)
# Title Year
1 Kill Quick or Die 1971
2 Come Watch Him Die 1971
3 Blood Debt 1972
4 Keepers of Death 1973
5 Fire Bomb 1973
6 Deadly Deal 1973
7 Valley of Death 1974
8 Deadly Doctor 1974
9 Blood Vengeance 1975
10 African Contract 1975
11 Suicide in San Juan 1975
12 The Cubano Caper 1976
13 The U.N. Affair 1976
14 Mayday Over Manhattan 1976
15 Hollywood Assassin 1976
16 Instant Dead 1976
17 Grecian Bloodbath 1976
18 Venetian Vendetta 1977
19 The Corporate Caper 1977
20 The Terror Truckers 1977
21 The Judas Judge 1979
22 September Slaughter 1980
23 Kill Them Silently 1980
24 Coffin Corner, U.S.A. 1981
25 The Hoodoo Horror 1981
26 Go Die in Afghanistan 1981
27 The Man from White Hat 1982
28 Gotham Gore 1982
Craghold Books (as Edwina Noone)
# Title Year
1 The Craghold Legacy 1971
2 The Craghold Curse 1971
3 The Craghold Creatures 1972
Ed Noon Books
# Title Year
1 The Spitting Image 1953
2 The Tall Dolores 1953
3 Dead Game 1954
4 Violence in Velvet 1956
5 The Voodoo Murders 1957
6 The Crazy Mixed-Up Corpse 1957
7 The Alarming Clock 1957
8 The Case of the Violent Virgin 1960
9 The February Doll Murders 1960
10 Meanwhile Back at the Morgue 1960
11 There Is Something about a Dame 1963
12 The Bedroom Bolero 1963
13 The Living Bomb 1963
14 Lust Is No Lady 1964
15 The Fat Death 1966
16 The Flower-Covered Corpse 1969
17 The Doomsday Bag 1969
18 Death Dives Deep 1971
19 The Hot Body 1973
20 Killer on the Keys 1973
21 The X-Rated Corpse 1973
22 Shoot it Again, Sam 1973
23 The Girl in the Cockpit 1974
24 London Bloody London 1974
25 Kill Her-- You'll Like It! 1974
26 The Big Stiffs 1977
27 5 Minute Mysteries 1978
28 High Noon at Midnight 1989
29 The Case of the Bouncing Betty 2012
30 The Horrible Man 2014
31 Assassins Don't Die in Bed 2014
32 Little Miss Murder 2014
The Satan Sleuth Books
# Title Year
1 Fallen Angel 1974
2 The Werewolf Walks Tonight 1974
3 Devil, Devil 1975
4 The Mandarin 2015
Charlie Chan Books
# Title Year
1 Charlie Chan And The Curse Of The Dragon Queen 1981
Friday the 13th Books (with Simon Hawke)
# Title Year
1 Friday the 13th, Part 3 3-D 1982
2 Jason Lives 1986
3 Friday the 13th 1987
4 Friday the 13th, Part 2 1988
5 Friday the 13th, Part 3 1988
Hawaii Five-0 Books
# Title Year
1 Hawaii Five-O 1968
2 Terror in the Sun 1969
The Man From U.N.C.L.E. Books
# Title Year
1 The Thousand Coffins Affair 1965
2 Doomsday Affair 1965
Girl From UNCLE Books
# Title Year
1 The Birds of a Feather Affair 1966
2 The Blazing Affair 1966
The Partridge Family Books
# Title Year
1 The Haunted Hall 1970
2 Keith, The Hero 1970
3 The Partridge Family 1970
4 The Fat and Skinny Murder Mystery 1972
Planet of the Apes Books
# Title Year
1 Planet of the Apes 1963
2 Beneath The Planet of The Apes 1970
3 Escape from the Planet of the Apes 1973
4 Conquest of the Planet of the Apes 1974
5 Planet of the Apes Movie Novelization 2001
Standalone Novels
# Title Year
1 Tales Of The Frightened 1963
2 Shock Corridor 1963
3 The Evil Men Do 1966
4 Terror At Deepcliff 1966
5 The Man From Avon 1967
6 Kingblood 1969
7 Missing 1969
8 Krakatoa East of Java 1969
9 Killing Star 1969
10 Black Lord 1970
11 The Last Escape 1970
12 Black Emperor 1971
13 Black Prince 1972
14 Black Lover 1972
15 Seacliffe 1972
16 Daughter of Darkness 1974
17 Secret Lives of the T.V.Girls 1976
18 Carquake 1977
19 Appointment in Iran 1977
20 Where Monsters Walk 1978
21 Name That Movie 1979
22 Tender Loving Fear 1981
23 Death in Yellow 1981
24 Cannonball Run 1981
25 Woman Called Golda 1982
26 Pan partout 1983
27 Mitzi 1997
28 The Walking Wounded 2019
Michael Avallone Anthologies
# Title Year
1 The Young Oxford Book of Nasty Endings 1998