I discovered Michael Avallone and his detective hero Ed Noon via a Writer's Digest cassette on mystery writing. I've mentioned that often in interviews and online forums.
I began to watch for his titles, especially those about his hero Ed Noon. The sixties entries from the series were the most plentiful at the used book shops around my home town. I had to do mail order for the first book, The Tall Dolores.
I believe this was the first I picked up, though I found one of the Spy to Mr. President Noon titles as well.
SEE ALSO: Biblioholic's Bookshelf - The Doomsday Bag
This one, The Flower-covered Corpse is copyright 1969 and is from the Curtis Books run of Noon titles with the Gil Gerard-lookalike model as Noon.
A little more on Avallone and Noon
