Avallone wrote also under the name of Edwina Noone, one of
his numerous aliases.
E.Borgers
Hard-Boiled Mysteries
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/6384
>I agree with James Reasoner about Ed Noon. Some
people, like Bill
>Pronzini, find him over the top--Bill has a long
section about Mike
>Avallone and Noon in his history of dreadful mystery
fiction, GUN IN
>CHEEK. But I find the "Nooniverse" hilarious--full of
old movie
>schticks, wacky dialogue, and a unique view of the
world. I think
>all the US editions are paperbacks, but many appeared
in UK in
>hardcover.
>
>Mike did a short-story collection about Noon for
Scholastic Books,
>aimed at teenagers. I think it was called 5-MINUTE
MYSTERIES.
>
>Doug
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