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ED NOON IS BACK!
Four new Ed Noon mysteries are now available on Amazon.com. By new, of course, I mean old… as Ed Noon, along with the rest of America, makes the transition from the 1950s to the 1960s, in books nine through twelve of the classic hard-boiled detective series.
First up is THE VOODOO MURDERS: Ed Noon goes up against the diabolical Count Calyspso. Sometimes you have a supervillain who just can’t be described any other way. Diabolical. This one takes Noon out of Manhattan and all the way to Port-Au-Prince.
Check out THE VOODOO MURDERS here: amzn.to/18oIhGG
Check out the whole ED NOON series so far, here: amzn.to/105wzNC
As always, I’d like to remind you that a Kindle is not required to read these Amazon eBooks. They work on any number of computer and phone platforms.Posted on May 5, 2013 with 1 note ()
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Happy Michael Avallone’s Birthday!
On this day, in 1924, Michael Angelo Avallone, Jr. was born in Manhattan to a very large Italian family. He served in what was still called the United States Cavalry in World War Two (tanks, not horses) and went on to write roughly 200 published novels and countless short stories. He was also, as my sister and I can personally attest, the greatest father you could ever imagine. He passed away in 1999, but his voice lives on in his work.
And if you’d like to experience that unique, New York, 20th Century voice, again or for the first time… his Ed Noon detective novels are availble here:
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=ntt_athr_dp_sr_1?_encoding=UTF8&field-author=Michael%20Avallone&search-alias=digital-text
And, for Halloween-season thrills, here’s something special: Michael Avallone’s legendary Tales of the Frightened stories, read by Vernon Wells, with incredible music by Eban Schletter. “Dim the lights, and play this record if you dare…”
http://www.amazon.com/Schletter-Presents-Michael-Avallones-Frightened/dp/B00468ABAG/ref=tmm_other_meta_binding_title_0?ie=UTF8&qid=1351360107&sr=1-2 -
One More Day for Dolores
Today is the last day of our free eBook promotion: THE TALL DOLORES will officially go on sale tomorrow, for our standard and very reasonable price of $ 4.99. So like the man says, “act now”. No problem if you don’t have a Kindle: there are free apps to read Ed Noon on your phone, your computer, your laptop, your iPad, your microwave, your toaster-oven, etc. It’s a magic time we live in.
Click the photo above to be taken directly, magically, to Amazon, for your free download.
If you haven’t met Ed Noon yet, today’s the day to do it. He’s a swell guy, a true original, and he’s got a whole lot of crazyadventures coming. Jump on now!
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We’ve been releasing the Noon novels with their original, 1950s covers intact… but THE TALL DOLORES and THE SPITTING IMAGE were reprinted in the 1970s. Here, to augment your collection, are the covers featuring the blow-dried 1970s Ed Noon model. He was a handsome chap.
One could quibble… Dolores doesn’t look particularly tall (check out those heels) and Ed Noon doesn’t use a snub-nose revolver or Schmeisser submachine gun. Nor, I imagine, would he have ever worn an orange turtleneck. But, you know, it was the seventies…
THE TALL DOLORES is still available as a free download, but the offer ends on June 21st. Click on the photo to go straight to Amazon… -
Monday at Noon
The weekend launch of four Ed Noon novels on Amazon went better than we could have imagined: as of this morning, THE TALL DOLORES is number ONE on the Amazon Hard-Boiled Mystery sales ranking, and # 32 Free in the Kindle Store. Our thanks go out to everyone who made that happen.
This morning, prolific author James Reasoner posted about the Ed Noon books on his blog, and told the story of how one Michael Avallone paperback changed his life. Thank you, Mr. Reasoner!
http://jamesreasoner.blogspot.com/
Anyone with an interest in pulp fiction, writing, historical novels or pop culture in general would be well advised to take a stroll through the rest of James’ blog, and check back in regularly: like the best blogs, it’s entertaining, informative and personal. -
The Return of Ed Noon
My father had a great love of Mad Magazine-style puns and wordplay. In one of the last Ed Noon books he has a chapter titled “Return of the Ed Eye”. I considered using that as the title of this post… but restrained myself. Still, it would have been appropriate, because… just in time for Father’s Day… today is, in fact, the Return of Ed Noon.
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=ntt_athr_dp_sr_1?_encoding=UTF8&search-alias=digital-text&field-author=Michael%20Avallone
The first four Ed Noon private eye novels are now available as eBooks on Amazon.com. It’s tricky to use a phrase like “back in print” when you’re talking about digital media… but let’s just say for the first time in over half a century you can read some of the finest pulp fiction ever written without the pages crumbling to dust in your hands!In publication order, they are THE TALL DOLORES, THE SPITTING IMAGE, DEAD GAME, and VIOLENCE IN VELVET. For a limited time, THE TALL DOLORES is offered for free… in the confidence that you will love it so much you’ll have to read them all.
Over the next year, we plan on releasing four Ed Noon novels a month, until the entire series has been made available to the public. This summer you’ll read 1950’s Ed Noon: a hard-boiled loner, a baseball and movie fanatic, taking crazy cases and working – and living – out of his midtown Manhattan office. By the fall we’ll have reached 1960’s Ed Noon: a high-profile private eye whose better class of client sometimes includes the President of the United States. The series wraps up with 1970s/80s Ed Noon: increasingly surreal cases and a surprising turn towards science fiction.
Take the whole, wild roller-coaster ride with author Michael Avallone: thirty-seven thrilling adventures that race along at a break-neck pace, spanning genres and providing a virtual travelogue of the second half of the Twentieth Century.
Enjoy!
David Avallone
p.s. If you don’t own a Kindle, there are apps for reading Kindle ebooks on Macs, Ipads, IPhones, Androids, etc. And they’re all free! -
In 1953, Michael Avallone’s first book, THE TALL DOLORES was published; a fast, funny mystery adventure set in Manhattan. In that book, we are introduced to ED NOON, private eye, a wise-cracking, movie and baseball-loving tough guy with a soft heart whose adventures often tipped towards the surreal. Between 1953 and 1990, in 36 novels, a handful of novellas and countless short stories, Ed Noon fought the good fight… usually out of a little midtown office so tiny and cramped that he called it the MOUSE AUDITORIUM.
Welcome to the Official Website of Michael Avallone. In 2012, we’ll be bringing Ed Noon, and other great characters from the Michael Avallone collection, back to the public. Watch this space…
