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Ed Noon #20
The Doomsday Bag
PAPERBACK ORIGINAL FIRST EDITION, Signet Mystery #P4096, published December 1969. First Edition, First Printing, so stated, no previous hardcover. Cover “A NEW MR. PRESIDENT SUSPENSE THRILLER” & “WHEN THE BLACK BAG DISAPPEARED, THE PRESIDENT HANDED DETECTIVE ED NOON THE GRIMMEST ASSIGNMENT OF HIS CAREER. IF HE FAILED, THERE WOULD BE NO WORLD TO KNOW ABOUT IT!” Author’s 20th of 38 Detective Ed Noon spy thriller novels. Also published under the title ‘Killer's Highway’. Original 60 cover price. Paperback, 141 pages, 18 cm.
- GenresMystery
141 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published December 1, 1969
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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 The final volume, "Since Noon Yesterday" is, as of 2005, unpublished.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_...
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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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June 10, 2017
From 1953 onward to 1989 for over thirty six years, Michael Avallone penned dozens of Ed Noon novels. This was the twentieth book in the series. For most of the series, Ed Noon was a typical wisecracking gumshoe detective who worked out of an office so small that he called it the Mouse Auditorium. The early Noon novels are great with clever bits thrown in.
In his later Noon novels, Avallone took a page from Ian Fleming and had his detective get called in to handle a case by none other than the President himself. While entertaining, this book which has Noon playing like James Bond in The Spy Who Loved Me, is unfortunately quite a few notches below the quality of the other Noon books.
Here, Noon works for the President himself with a special pass that allows him access to everything in Washington D. C. Someone has made off with the Secret Service agent carrying the doomsday bag, the football that contained all the launch codes. This one has bombs going off and shootings and kidnappings and secret Russian spies, but it just doesn't have all the fun and joy of a typical Ed Noon book. I think Avallone is a great writer and his Noon books are terrific, but the other ones are better.
In his later Noon novels, Avallone took a page from Ian Fleming and had his detective get called in to handle a case by none other than the President himself. While entertaining, this book which has Noon playing like James Bond in The Spy Who Loved Me, is unfortunately quite a few notches below the quality of the other Noon books.
Here, Noon works for the President himself with a special pass that allows him access to everything in Washington D. C. Someone has made off with the Secret Service agent carrying the doomsday bag, the football that contained all the launch codes. This one has bombs going off and shootings and kidnappings and secret Russian spies, but it just doesn't have all the fun and joy of a typical Ed Noon book. I think Avallone is a great writer and his Noon books are terrific, but the other ones are better.
June 15, 2014
Good read of the noir sort. One problem I had was the description of the "pump gun", a name the author seemed to be in love with. He variously described it as a pump shotgun, a double barrel, and an automatic. It can't be all three. While a pump double barrel is technically possible, I'm not sure one was ever made. And pump and automatic would be mutually exclusive, it had to be one or the other.
For that matter, if a double barrel automatic even existed it would be debatable which end would be more dangerous!
If it was a pump shotgun, like any number of police version short barrel pump shotguns, it would have one barrel, and be fired one shot at a time, pumping a new shell with each shot. That being said, it still will do plenty of horrendous damage as described in the book without being either double barreled or automatic.
For that matter, if a double barrel automatic even existed it would be debatable which end would be more dangerous!
If it was a pump shotgun, like any number of police version short barrel pump shotguns, it would have one barrel, and be fired one shot at a time, pumping a new shell with each shot. That being said, it still will do plenty of horrendous damage as described in the book without being either double barreled or automatic.
July 12, 2014
The President's Private Eye, Ed Noon is called in when the the man who carries the football, the bag containing the nuclear codes, disappears.
He foils an assassination, has an affair with a spy, and has various other escapades, until it's all revealed with the usual suspect guilty.
Not bad, but I like the earlier ones in the series better, I think.
He foils an assassination, has an affair with a spy, and has various other escapades, until it's all revealed with the usual suspect guilty.
Not bad, but I like the earlier ones in the series better, I think.
February 3, 2016
Another good read! I enjoyed the story, but I wasn't real happy with the abrupt and open-ended ending.
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