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Ed Noon #29
The X-Rated Corpse
ED NOON MYSTERY #29
"Her name was Paris, Violet Paris. She was the hottest thing in Hollywood, the girl who could do anything on the screen and look great doing it. Critics loved her, audiences adored her, and as far as Ed Noon was concerned, she could do no wrong.
Then one night Violet Paris summoned Ed to her movieland mansion and opened herself up to him as she begged for his help. And suddenly Ed wasn't a fan anymore, he was a hunter stalking a behind-the-screen jungle of perverted lust and unbridled passion, where Violet Paris was fair game for a killer who lived off female flesh..."
"Her name was Paris, Violet Paris. She was the hottest thing in Hollywood, the girl who could do anything on the screen and look great doing it. Critics loved her, audiences adored her, and as far as Ed Noon was concerned, she could do no wrong.
Then one night Violet Paris summoned Ed to her movieland mansion and opened herself up to him as she begged for his help. And suddenly Ed wasn't a fan anymore, he was a hunter stalking a behind-the-screen jungle of perverted lust and unbridled passion, where Violet Paris was fair game for a killer who lived off female flesh..."
105 pages, Kindle Edition
First published January 1, 1973
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About the author
Michael Avallone
199 books41 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 The final volume, "Since Noon Yesterday" is, as of 2005, unpublished.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
Avallone penned some thirty Ed Noon novels, many of them wisecracking private eye novels and a few with Noon being a super secret spy answering only to the President. These are for the most part fun, witty, quick reading books with the classic PI novels being the best of the lot.
The X-Rated Corpse returns Noon to the world of the private eye. All the action takes place in Hollywood, not his familiar haunts of NYC. He is hired by the world's sexiest, most glamorous actress to obtain some blue movies that were made early on in her career. This, begins a tale of blackmail, murder, and Hollywood intrigue.
While it's not the best of the Noon PI novels, it is certainly a fun PI read. Some of the dialogue certainly takes you back to the late sixties/ early seventies, particularly when Noon raps with the local Vietnam Vet police detective. And, there are a few surprises in the story too.
The X-Rated Corpse returns Noon to the world of the private eye. All the action takes place in Hollywood, not his familiar haunts of NYC. He is hired by the world's sexiest, most glamorous actress to obtain some blue movies that were made early on in her career. This, begins a tale of blackmail, murder, and Hollywood intrigue.
While it's not the best of the Noon PI novels, it is certainly a fun PI read. Some of the dialogue certainly takes you back to the late sixties/ early seventies, particularly when Noon raps with the local Vietnam Vet police detective. And, there are a few surprises in the story too.
October 24, 2024
Very quick read. The author's style is...quirky. Sometimes bleak, sometimes humorous.
January 11, 2016
ZERO STARS
I've read some pretty bad fiction, some of which I have enjoyed anyway. Robert Leslie Bellem's Dan Turner stories come to mind. Those can be great fun, sometimes, and Bellem could produce the occasional fine paragraph or well constructed sentence.
Michael Avallone, however, doesn't seem to know a sentence--good or bad--from his left elbow. This book showed me that Avallone earned his reputation: he simply could not write.
This is some of the very worst crap I have ever read. He indulges in too many choppy non-sentences. Like this. And this. And stupid descriptions, like "fearsome breasts." Like describing a negative head-shake as an affirmative. In the same sentence.
I must have felt the need for punishment; I read the whole book. When I finish this review, I'll delete the other two Avallones from my Kindle. I'll never need enough punishment to read this hack's junk again.
I've read some pretty bad fiction, some of which I have enjoyed anyway. Robert Leslie Bellem's Dan Turner stories come to mind. Those can be great fun, sometimes, and Bellem could produce the occasional fine paragraph or well constructed sentence.
Michael Avallone, however, doesn't seem to know a sentence--good or bad--from his left elbow. This book showed me that Avallone earned his reputation: he simply could not write.
This is some of the very worst crap I have ever read. He indulges in too many choppy non-sentences. Like this. And this. And stupid descriptions, like "fearsome breasts." Like describing a negative head-shake as an affirmative. In the same sentence.
I must have felt the need for punishment; I read the whole book. When I finish this review, I'll delete the other two Avallones from my Kindle. I'll never need enough punishment to read this hack's junk again.
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