Ace went back on their word and hired follow up writers for the novels. He had a deal with the publisher of a thousand dollars for the first book and agreed to do the rest on a handshake deal.

series was titled The Thousand Coffins Affair. His book from the first of the novelizations of the U.N.C.L.E. He also wrote tie-ins for Beneath the Planet of the Apes, Hawaii Five-o, The Partridge Family, Friday the 13th Part III, and The Man From U.N.C.L.E. This started with The Main Attraction in 1963. The 32nd book in the series was published in 1988 and is titled High Noon at Midnight.Īvallone did an incredible amount of television and movie tie-ins, over two dozen. He would go on to write several more novels after that in the Ed Noon series that this book started off. His debut novel came out in 1953 and was titled The Tall Dolores. The total amount of work that he has put out in his career and lifetime includes articles, short stories, and novels, over a thousand works in total. He wrote secret agent stories as well as mystery stories and novelizations of films and television. He would go on to become a successful published author of prolific proportions. The author was born in New York City on October 27, 1924. The author had many pen names that he used to write books and more. He also used a variety of other pen names, including Sidney Stuart, Dorothea Nile, Edwina Noone, Priscilla Dalton, Troy Conway, Vance Stanton, Mark Dane, Steve Michaels, Lee Davis Willoughby, Max Walker, John Patrick, Jeanne-Anne dePre, Mike Avalone, Dora Highland, and Stuart Jason, in addition to sharing the Nick Carter pen name with other authors. His full name is Michael Angelo Avallone Jr. Michael Avallone is an American published author.

The Craghold Creatures by Edwina Noone