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Mark Dane
A prolific mid-century storyteller, Mark Dane was one of the many pen names used by American mystery and thriller writer Michael Avallone. The name appeared on pulp fiction and suspense work, including the story “The Stop at Nothing.”
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The stop at Nothing
by Mark Dane
About the author
Mark Dane was a pen name of Michael Angelo Avallone Jr., an American writer known for mystery, detective, espionage, horror, and television and film novelizations. Avallone published under numerous male and female pseudonyms, making his bibliography unusually broad and sometimes difficult to trace.
Born in New York in 1924, Avallone began writing for the pulp magazines and later worked as an editor of men’s magazines. He also edited the Mystery Writers of America newsletter from 1962 to 1965 and created the long-running Ed Noon detective series.
Avallone continued writing across several genres until his death in Los Angeles in 1999. His work as Mark Dane reflects the fast-moving, imaginative style of the pulp era, when authors regularly shifted between pen names and genres to keep readers turning the pages.