Review: A Fun Read
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 04 24, 2014
This was Mike's first novel, as well as the first Ed Noon story, published by A Perma Star Doubleday paperback #244 in 1953. I have always been a fan of Mike Avallone, and met him at a pulp convention one year, and we became good friends. Mike could write anything, and did!"The Tall Dolores" was a fun read, even though Ed Noon cracks a few too many wisecracks throughout the novel for my taste. Plus, the plot was full of too many coincidences. Noon is hired by Dolores, a giant of a woman, to find her boyfriend, and immediately Ed Noon finds the corpse of the man he's looking for. Now two cops want to hang a couple murder raps on him, so he teams up with a prostitute. And nothing is as it should be. There is a nice amount of action, including fistfights and gun battles, the ever-present bad-cop, good-cop interference, etc.