For whatever it is worth, I miss Mike Avallone. I suspect in
Mike's mind, he thought of himself as the Mel Ott of the
genre. He wasn't. Still, with his book High Noon at Midnight,
I thought he wrote a truly great private eye novel and made
an original and profound statement about a type of fiction
too often riddled with cliques and mediocrity. Mike wasn't a
.300 hitter. He was more of a journeyman utility outfielder,
one who always got surprised every year when he didn't make
the All-Star team. Still, with that one book, I thought Mike
was everything in his mind's eye, and some.
George the Librarian
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