![]() How could anyone overlook the prose style of the samples below? Forget that the book is all about a movie production company and is peppered with numerous references to old movies and movie stars. It's not at all like any Gothic suspense novel you will ever read.Īnyone familiar with Avallone's work would recognize his tell-tale style in an instant. Forget that giveaway pen name. ![]() And I could only think as I was reading this loopy book that a whole lot of women readers who used to snap up Gothic suspense books by the bucketful back in the 60s and 70s must've thought the "woman" who wrote this book had smoked a little too much weed or dropped a bit too much acid. So much of a prankster that he includes one of his own alter egos as a character in this book. His private, after all, was Ed Noon. Avallone was a big prankster when it came to pen names. ![]() A well read private eye fan won't even have to open this book to know that it's one of the many pseudonyms of Michael Avallone. ![]()
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