Michael Avallone Books in Order

Ed Noon investigates the Wexler twins, whose unusual inheritance arrangement gives one a million-dollar reason to eliminate the other. Repeated attempts at murder leave the private detective caught between two nearly identical suspects and the demands of a dangerous will.

A towering burlesque performer hires Ed Noon to locate her missing lover, but the search changes when he is found stabbed to death. Missing diamonds draw Noon through New York landmarks as a routine assignment becomes a murder investigation.

A baseball player is murdered during an exhibition game with the New York Giants, while a previously unknown Edgar Allan Poe diary disappears. Ed Noon encounters an obsessive antiques dealer and two women entangled in the dangerous pursuit of the rare manuscript.

The young daughter of a Broadway star hires Ed Noon to investigate her mother's murder, with her own father among the suspects. The case takes him backstage and brings him close to the actor's agent, Helen Tucker.

A strange alarm clock arrives at Ed Noon's office with a message that draws him into a conspiracy against an American atomic test. Former Nazis and a reunion with Alma Wheeler complicate the detective's efforts to prevent sabotage.

Ed Noon's laundry becomes an unexpected clue in a case involving a corpse that appears to have been murdered more than once. A stripper, a cruel millionaire and assorted criminals obstruct his attempt to explain the bewildering evidence.

A threat in Manhattan draws Ed Noon into the schemes of Count Calypso and a voodoo cult with ambitions for worldwide power. The murder of a close friend makes the investigation personal as the trail carries him toward Haiti.

Director Marcus Manton hires Ed Noon after threats and a suspicious elevator accident endanger his Broadway musical's cast. A baron's apparently accurate predictions complicate the investigation, especially his claim that Noon himself will murder the man who hired him.

A luxury train bound for Chicago brings Ed Noon into a hunt for the missing Violent Virgin statue and a valuable diamond. Unusual fellow passengers and two ruthless killers make identifying the truth a dangerous undertaking inside the confined journey.

Questions about a wartime dollar bill signed by Ed Noon's cavalry comrades lead to his old army friend's murder. An attack on Noon draws him and secretary Melissa Mercer toward an international conspiracy aimed at sabotaging the United Nations.

Journalist Johnny Barrett pretends to be mentally ill so he can enter a psychiatric hospital and investigate an unsolved murder. This film novelization follows his pursuit of witnesses as the strain of maintaining his deception threatens his own mental stability.

Twenty-six short horror stories collect tales associated with Boris Karloff's narrated series. Stories involving vampires, ominous clothing, haunted reflections and disturbing encounters with the dead bring supernatural threats into the lives of varied, often unsuspecting characters.

Five murdered women are discovered in red-painted rooms with Ravel's Bolero playing repeatedly. Captain Mike Monks asks Ed Noon to help unravel the pattern, drawing the detective toward a show-business figure known as the Evil Evelyn.

The president hires Ed Noon to find nuclear scientist Homer Conroy, who has disappeared with the formula for a powerful cobalt weapon. International assassins and competing interests obstruct the search as Noon pursues a threat reaching far beyond a missing-person case.

Ed Noon investigates a missing Shakespeare manuscript and an attempt on the life of his old friend Memo Morgan. A famous actor, a puzzling tattoo and brutal rival detective Vince Devlin complicate the effort to establish whether the lost work is genuine.

Stranded by a flat tire in Wyoming, Ed Noon is attacked by a small airplane and encounters a murdered man's niece. A gang's pursuit of Civil War gold draws him into a conflict further complicated by the pilot's separate ambitions.

Villages in Africa and Scotland are devastated by a mysterious outbreak of madness. U.N.C.L.E. agents Napoleon Solo and Illya Kuryakin investigate, following a trail involving a graveyard and a monstrous figure called Golgotha in this television tie-in novel.

April Dancer infiltrates THRUSH after fellow U.N.C.L.E. agent Mark Slate is kidnapped. With the organization demanding an unacceptable ransom, her mission requires reaching the captive from inside enemy ranks and turning her training against those holding him.

April Dancer and Mark Slate pursue the international organization TORCH on a mission stretching from Budapest to Johannesburg. Encounters with armed attackers and a trap in a South African diamond mine test the U.N.C.L.E. agents' ability to survive the investigation.

Leaflets over Manhattan announce a campaign led by the mysterious Slim Savior, ostensibly intended to make Americans more conscious of their diets. Ed Noon discovers that the movement hides dangerous activity, drawing him into the worlds of fashion and clothing manufacture.

Traveling Avon book salesman Larry McKnight uses his commercial rounds as cover for work investigating unidentified flying objects. Flying saucers, eccentric acquaintances and a woman in danger complicate a mission hidden behind the ordinary business of selling paperbacks.

A killer uses cyanide cocktails to eliminate a shipping magnate, a stripper and a small-time thief. Hawaii Five-O investigates the linked deaths while the magnate's daughter remains at risk after an earlier attempt to poison her fails.

Detective Sam Swope investigates the brutal murders of five housewives, each marked by a Star of David left at the scene. The repeated symbol raises questions about a vengeance rooted in Europe and a larger crime concealed behind the killings.

Captain Chris Hanson leads a voyage to recover valuable pearls from a wreck near Krakatoa in 1883. This film novelization brings divers, balloonists and troubled passengers into a salvage expedition increasingly endangered by the volcano's impending eruption.

Six professional killers arrive in Hawaii with separate assignments: five are ordered to kill Steve McGarrett, while the sixth targets the man he is protecting. Hawaii Five-O must defend both men against assassins working with different methods and weapons.

The president's security aide disappears with the satchel containing America's nuclear launch codes. Ed Noon receives an urgent assignment to locate both man and bag, knowing the missing information could place the machinery of worldwide destruction in hostile hands.

A famous guru's murder and a bombing lead Ed Noon into Greenwich Village's counterculture. Searching for a killer, he enters an underground world of drugs, con artists and occult activity where the promise of flower power has turned violent.

Astronaut Brent crashes on the planet ruled by apes while searching for Taylor's missing expedition. This film novelization follows his journey with Nova into the Forbidden Zone, where an underground human society presents another threat amid the apes' military ambitions.

Keith Partridge discovers a talent for baseball that rivals his success as a singer. The prospect of pursuing a sporting career forces him to reconsider his place in the family band, whose future could change if its most popular member leaves.

The Partridge family rents an old mansion while preparing to perform at a rock festival. Learning that its owner is confined to a sanitarium for compulsive fire-setting adds to their unease as further secrets complicate their temporary home.

During the Second World War, American officer Lee Mitchell joins British commandos on a mission to extract a German rocket scientist. This film novelization follows their attempt to escape while SS units and Soviet forces pursue the same valuable target.

A cassette carrying Soviet secrets accidentally reaches the Partridge family, drawing the musical household into an unexpected mystery. The first novel based on the television comedy turns their shared adventures toward espionage and the dangers surrounding the misplaced recording.

The president sends Ed Noon south of Florida to investigate reports of an underwater realm populated by man-eating women. The detective's unlikely assignment draws him into submarine danger and a conspiracy that threatens American security around the Bermuda Triangle.

Winter isolates guests at Craghold House, a secluded hotel with a sinister manager and a history of strange phenomena. A young woman meets an author researching nearby caves, while apparent hauntings and earthly threats unsettle their stay.

Anne Fenner visits the isolated Craghold hotel hoping to rest, but its peculiar staff and shadowy history offer little comfort. Danger and an unexpected romance draw her into mysteries that seem to have been waiting for her arrival.

A young woman receives an unusual legacy from her seafaring father and finds herself caught in a troubling mystery. Set on the Maine coast, the story entangles her inheritance with greed and dangers she must confront.

A horror film production arrives at the secluded Craghold house, where an already unsettling atmosphere conceals more sinister intentions. The filming brings fresh dangers into the old hotel's strange world, with an apparent ghost adding to the uncertainty.

Murders at a celebrated violinist's concerts leave the musician near collapse and draw Ed Noon into a campaign of terror. A seductive woman's attention complicates his hunt for the killer and threatens to make him another victim.

Escorting his favorite movie star's corpse to California turns into a nightmare for private investigator Ed Noon. A shocking coffin-side incident leads to kidnapping and brainwashing, with Noon being prepared to assassinate the President.

Former First Lady Helen Friday's glamorous public life conceals a scheme with potentially global consequences. Ed Noon is assigned to intervene, confronting a woman whose influence and dangerous plans threaten far more than newspaper headlines.

Hollywood star Violet Paris asks admiring private investigator Ed Noon for help at her mansion. His enthusiasm gives way to a dangerous investigation into the film world's hidden appetites, where a killer has made the actress a target.

The memory of Lady Karoleigh Stafford dominates a medieval castle, where her daughter lives beneath the shadow of a troubling death. An outsider's arrival threatens to disturb the family's secrets and awaken a dangerous repetition of the past.

Millionaire Philip St. George's wife is murdered by a cult of Satan worshippers. After months of grief, he turns himself into an avenger, pursuing those responsible while trying to protect others marked for ritual sacrifice.

A murderer known as the Gingerbread Man targets strippers, prompting star performer Ada Ven to seek Ed Noon's protection. Confined in a hotel suite with Ada and her hostile ex-husband, Noon waits for a dangerous killer.

The President sends Ed Noon to London to track an aging scientist and a child prodigy. His search through the city's back streets becomes increasingly dangerous, complicated by a woman whose attraction hides a taste for violence.

The death of wealthy Giovanni Ricco sends his son and gang in search of revenge. Ed Noon becomes the intended victim of a deadly trap, with Ricco's alluring daughter Terry playing a dangerous role in the scheme.

Brutal killings in Fletcherville suggest that a legendary werewolf may be real. When a young woman also disappears, occult investigator Philip St. George intervenes, facing a mystery whose violence threatens to claim still more victims.

A Manhattan coven led by the hypnotic Sister Sorrow is linked to the murders of five young women. Philip St. George, the Satan Sleuth, sets out to stop its leader before more victims fall under her influence.

The Mob kidnaps Bucher's lover and offers to remove the price on his head if he performs an assassination in Iran. Accepting the bargain sends him toward Beirut, where withheld details and uncertain loyalties threaten the mission.

Racer Coy Buckman enters an illegal cross-country contest hoping to revive his professional career. In this novelization of Cannonball!, a cash prize, fierce competitors and sabotage turn the journey from California toward New York into a dangerous race.

The President sends Ed Noon to Rome to retrieve an apparently ordinary package. Its contents plunge him into espionage and sudden violence, bringing him into contact with a formidable armed woman, an Italian policeman and a terrorist group.

Thirteen short horror stories explore an unsettling world of ghosts, goblins, witches and other threats. Tales including The Phantom Ferrari and The House of Horrors offer varied encounters with danger in this collection of supernatural fiction.

Eccentric competitors set off on an illegal road race across America in this novelization of the film. Disguises, unusual vehicles and ruthless tricks fuel their scramble toward California while police and rival drivers threaten their chances.

San Francisco police call retired detective Charlie Chan back to investigate a series of murders. Assisted by his grandson, he encounters the mysterious Dragon Queen while family members and others around them face growing danger.

Government agent Bucher travels to Florida to investigate a lethal gas, but enemies from his criminal past complicate the assignment. His mission leads toward a hidden swamp stronghold, where a dangerous mastermind threatens a captive scientist.

Nurse Jackie Sorensen accepts a position caring for Harvey Graves, an architect confined to a wheelchair by a mysterious illness. Their mutual attraction develops at Graves Hall, where a troubling past threatens the possibility of love.

A killer waits in the forest as unsuspecting visitors enter his territory, turning their escape into a struggle for survival. This novelization of the third Friday the 13th film follows the deadly threat looming over their gathering.

This novelization of the television film follows Golda Meir from her early life in Milwaukee toward leadership in Israel. Personal determination and political responsibilities shape a career tested by war and the demands of serving her people.

Ed Noon comes under attack from a small aircraft and becomes involved with a threatened Native American woman. His encounters lead toward a group digging through former tribal territory in pursuit of a fabulous hidden fortune.

An aging Ed Noon confronts what appears to be an alien invasion, but uncertainty surrounds the reality of the threat. The private investigator's experience collides with questions about his own exhausted mind and the dangers facing him.

Mattress tester Betty attracts bullets and mysterious pursuers, drawing private investigator Ed Noon into her predicament. A gangster and a growing trail of bodies complicate a case in which understanding her unusual work may explain the danger.

The President assigns Ed Noon to protect elder statesman Henry Hallmark during a European peace tour. Aboard an ocean liner crowded with colorful travelers, he must identify a potential assassin before the diplomatic mission becomes a murder scene.

A formidable elderly woman, professional killers and a sadist create an unusually dangerous lineup for Ed Noon. Working for the President, the detective faces opponents whose plans threaten both his own life and the wider world.

Playboy Tommy Spanner's death turns his body into a prize that dangerous people want to claim. Under orders from above, Ed Noon must keep the corpse out of enemy hands while navigating desire, deception and murder.

Twenty years after Ed Noon's first major case ended in Dolores Ainsley's accidental death, her son comes looking for revenge. The reclusive playwright intends to destroy the aging detective completely, forcing Noon to confront a painful past.