Ed Noon Series

32 primary works • 34 total works
The Adventures of Ed Noon, Private Eye, span over 30 novels written between 1953 and 1990. Noon starts out dirt poor with a tiny office in Midtown Manhattan (his "Mouse Auditorium") but success moves him to better digs, a lovely secretary (Melissa Mercer) and, eventually, the most important client of all: the President of the United States. The ser…

Book 1

The Tall Dolores
3.64
· 135 Ratings · 30 Reviews · published 1953 · 13 editions
"It's like this. You've been alive about thirty ye…
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Book 2

The Spitting Image
3.81
· 43 Ratings · 6 Reviews · published 1953 · 9 editions
"She was a brunette edition, pocket size, but her …
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Book 3

Dead Game
4.00
· 42 Ratings · 6 Reviews · published 1954 · 9 editions
A redhead, a brunette, a missing undiscovered Poe …
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Book 4

Violence in Velvet
3.65
· 43 Ratings · 7 Reviews · published 1956 · 6 editions
A Broadway star’s wife is murdered, and her little…
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Book 5

The Alarming Clock
3.84
· 32 Ratings · 2 Reviews · published 1957 · 8 editions
ED NOON MYSTERY #5

"That's just one of the reason…
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Book 6

The Case of the Bouncing Betty
3.79
· 29 Ratings · 4 Reviews · published 2012 · 3 editions
"The first time I saw Betty she was bouncing. She …
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Book 7

The Case of the Violent Virgin
3.82
· 28 Ratings · 4 Reviews · published 1960 · 3 editions
ED NOON MYSTERY #7

"My eyes met hers and stopped.…
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Book 8

The Crazy Mixed-Up Corpse
3.87
· 31 Ratings · 5 Reviews · published 1957 · 7 editions
ED NOON MYSTERY #8

"The day the fur-bearing, gun-be…
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Book 9

The Voodoo Murders
4.00
· 25 Ratings · 5 Reviews · published 1957 · 6 editions
ED NOON MYSTERY #9

"The hand was quicker than the p…
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Book 10

Meanwhile Back at the Morgue
4.05
· 19 Ratings · 3 Reviews · published 1960 · 4 editions
I was yammering, but she wasn't listening. Her she…
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Book 11

The Living Bomb
3.69
· 16 Ratings · 2 Reviews · published 1963 · 10 editions
ED NOON MYSTERY #11

"Great life. Guns, girls and tr…
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Book 12

There is Something About a Dame
4.33
· 12 Ratings · 2 Reviews · published 1963 · 5 editions
Raymond Chandler's definition of a private eye..."…
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Book 13

The Bedroom Bolero
4.06
· 16 Ratings · 3 Reviews · published 1963 · 6 editions
ED NOON MYSTERY #13

The Bedroom Bolero

Five murdered…
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Book 14

Lust Is No Lady
4.17
· 12 Ratings · 3 Reviews · published 1964 · 4 editions
ED NOON MYSTERY #14

Lust Is No Lady

Ed Noon’s car bl…
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Book 15

The Fat Death
3.85
· 13 Ratings · 2 Reviews · published 1966 · 7 editions
ED NOON MYSTERY #15

The Fat Death

“Beware the Fat De…
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Book 16

The February Doll Murders
3.93
· 15 Ratings · 4 Reviews · published 1960 · 7 editions
ED NOON MYSTERY #16

The February Doll Murders

An in…
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Book 17

Assassins Don't Die in Bed
3.95
· 19 Ratings · 3 Reviews · published 2014 · 7 editions
“All my political savvy can be written on the back…
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Book 18

The Horrible Man
3.73
· 11 Ratings · 2 Reviews · published 2014 · 5 editions
“Tony Spanner had known how to live even if he had…
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Book 19

The Flower-Covered Corpse
4.09
· 11 Ratings · 4 Reviews · published 1969 · 9 editions
“When a man is marked for the bullet that will kil…
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Book 20

The Doomsday Bag
3.48
· 27 Ratings · 4 Reviews · published 1969 · 5 editions
“The Bagman disappeared at approximately 1:30, and…
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Book 21

Death Dives Deep
3.67
· 12 Ratings · 3 Reviews · published 1971 · 6 editions
“I didn’t raise my hands the way you’re supposed t…
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Book 22

Little Miss Murder
3.83
· 12 Ratings · 2 Reviews · published 2014 · 6 editions
“Funny how a tall, cool dame with long, lithe legs…
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Book 23

Shoot it Again, Sam
3.67
· 18 Ratings · 2 Reviews · published 1973 · 5 editions
“It was all so simple, really. My assignment. I ha…
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Book 24

London Bloody London
3.80
· 10 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 1974 · 4 editions
“The fate of all cogs everywhere: when the buttons…
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Book 25

The Girl in the Cockpit
3.67
· 12 Ratings · 4 Reviews · published 1974 · 9 editions
ED NOON MYSTERY #25


"Like all of us, Ed Noon had …

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Book 26

Kill Her—You'll Like It!
3.44
· 9 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 1974 · 6 editions
ED NOON MYSTERY #26


The killer called himself the…
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Book 27

Killer on the Keys
3.89
· 9 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 1973 · 5 editions
ED NOON MYSTERY #27


Gregory the Great was the wor…
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Book 28

The Hot Body
3.44
· 9 Ratings · 2 Reviews · published 1973 · 4 editions
ED NOON MYSTERY #28 Helen Friday was the loveliest…
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Book 29

The X-Rated Corpse
3.20
· 15 Ratings · 3 Reviews · published 1973 · 5 editions
ED NOON MYSTERY #29

"Her name was Paris, Violet Par…
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Book 30

The Big Stiffs: Blues for Sophia Loren
3.56
· 9 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 1977 · 3 editions
Noon winds up in Italy as a tourist, but is arrest…
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Book 31

The Walking Wounded
2.50
· 6 Ratings · 1 Reviews · 1 edition
THE WALKING WOUNDED (Ed Noon Mystery # 31) “The me…
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Book 32

Dark On Monday : Ed Noon Mystery Book 32
.The incredible crime wave began with a mysterious…
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Five-Minute Mysteries: Cases from the Files of Ed Noon, Private Eye
Five-Minute Cases from the Files of Ed Noon
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High Noon at Midnight
3.00
· 1 Ratings · 1 Reviews · 2 editions
Libro usado en buenas condiciones, por su antigued…
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