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The Partridge Family #3
Keith, the Hero
Double Play
The family that plays together, stays together is the Partridge family's motto, and it's zoomed them straight to the summit of rock fame and fortune. But now, suddenly, the Partridges face a new kind of crisis--from within...
When Keith, the fans' super-idol, turns out to be as dynamic at blasting home runs as he is at socking songs across, the group's future hangs in the balance. WIll Keith decide to make a stab at baseball greatness--and leave the Partridge clan without its brightest star?
The family that plays together, stays together is the Partridge family's motto, and it's zoomed them straight to the summit of rock fame and fortune. But now, suddenly, the Partridges face a new kind of crisis--from within...
When Keith, the fans' super-idol, turns out to be as dynamic at blasting home runs as he is at socking songs across, the group's future hangs in the balance. WIll Keith decide to make a stab at baseball greatness--and leave the Partridge clan without its brightest star?
127 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1970
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About the author
Michael Avallone
198 books40 followersAlso wrote Nick Carter: Killmaster series under Nick Carter alias with others
Michael Angelo Avallone was a prolific American author of mystery and secret agent fiction, and novelizations based on TV and films. He claimed a lifetime output over 1,000 works, including novels, short stories, articles, published under his own name or 17+ pseudonyms.
His first novel, The Tall Dolores 1953 introduced Ed Noon PI. After three dozen more, the most recent was 1989. The final volume, "Since Noon Yesterday" is, as of 2005, unpublished.
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. In late 1960s novellas featured U.N.C.L.E.-like INTREX. He is sometimes cited incorrectly as the creator of Man from U.N.C.L.E. (as in the January 1967 issue of The Saint Magazine), or having died March 1.
As Troy Conway, Rod Damon: The Coxeman novel series 1967-73, parodied Man from UNCLE. An unusual entry was the novelization of the 1982 TV mini-series, A Woman Called Golda, the life of Golda Meir.
Among 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.
From 1962-5, Avallone edited the Mystery Writers of America newsletter. Personal Life:
He married 1949 Lucille Asero (one son; marriage dissolved), 1960 Fran Weinstein (one son, one daughter); died Los Angeles.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_...
http://www.thrillingdetective.com/tri...
Michael Angelo Avallone was a prolific American author of mystery and secret agent fiction, and novelizations based on TV and films. He claimed a lifetime output over 1,000 works, including novels, short stories, articles, published under his own name or 17+ pseudonyms.
His first novel, The Tall Dolores 1953 introduced Ed Noon PI. After three dozen more, the most recent was 1989. The final volume, "Since Noon Yesterday" is, as of 2005, unpublished.
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. In late 1960s novellas featured U.N.C.L.E.-like INTREX. He is sometimes cited incorrectly as the creator of Man from U.N.C.L.E. (as in the January 1967 issue of The Saint Magazine), or having died March 1.
As Troy Conway, Rod Damon: The Coxeman novel series 1967-73, parodied Man from UNCLE. An unusual entry was the novelization of the 1982 TV mini-series, A Woman Called Golda, the life of Golda Meir.
Among 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.
From 1962-5, Avallone edited the Mystery Writers of America newsletter. Personal Life:
He married 1949 Lucille Asero (one son; marriage dissolved), 1960 Fran Weinstein (one son, one daughter); died Los Angeles.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_...
http://www.thrillingdetective.com/tri...
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October 31, 2019
Books 1, 2, 4, & 5 are mysteries with a spooky edge. That's what is expected from books based on TV sitcoms. So why did Avallone stray off that dependable and enjoyable path, and instead wrote a story about Keith discovering he had baseball talent rivaling even the greatest baseball stars of all time? It's totally ridiculous. There was no mystery and certainly no spooks. This made reading this—the final Avallone book in the series—even less enjoyable, because he was back with his annoying writing style and factual mistakes:
-Still with the full names! Oy vey!
-“Greensward”? "Weskit"?! When was the author born, 1800?
-Among his ever-present annoying grammatical misuses is his dislike for commas. In place of them he uses “and”: “Laurie and Danny and Chris and Tracy.”
-Laurie was not blonde. Or maybe he was seeing Susan Dey's future on L.A. Law.
-Still with the full names! Oy vey!
-“Greensward”? "Weskit"?! When was the author born, 1800?
-Among his ever-present annoying grammatical misuses is his dislike for commas. In place of them he uses “and”: “Laurie and Danny and Chris and Tracy.”
-Laurie was not blonde. Or maybe he was seeing Susan Dey's future on L.A. Law.
Displaying 1 of 1 review