Kin Platt

Big Max, the world's greatest detective, helps a king find his missing elephant.

Between breakfast and her first class one February morning, studious, sensible Dorothy finds herself head over heels in love with alarming, unpredictable Crocker.

A young American basketball player wins a free trip to Paris, where he encounters smugglers and a strange doctor.

After her parents' divorce and father's suicide, an eleven-year-old causes misery in the family by her hostile reaction to her mother's new husband.

Hired to discover why a wild-animal farm's tame lion has become unpredictably nervous, three young detectives begin an investigation that uncovers a smuggling operation.

Big Bill Starrwood is a list man since his beloved wife, Katie, died. He has left his job in the homicide detective work has no interest for him anymore. But Bill must keep the promise he made to Katie. He must travel to Ireland, find his wife's younger sister Noreen, and bring her Katie's blessing. After unsuccessfully seeking her at an old address in Dublin, Stanwood arrives in Russlare, the tiny town where the sisters had been born. He considers it a lucky coincidence that Noreen is there-working in the hotel where he's staying. She greets him with delight, then runs off to an appointment, promising to meet him later. And Stanwood never sees her again until her battered body turns up on the hotel's golf links. The instinct of his twenty-year profession stirs, within him, and Stanwood doggedly sets out to find Noreen's killer. His search sends him to the fringes of Ireland's violent political faction, where he uncovers another murder which puts him in dire peril of his own life. Kim Platt has written a number of well received adult mysteries and a long list of funny and intriguing children's books, including numerous titles in the "I Can Read" series of juvenile mysteries. This is his first work for Walker. The author lives in Los Angeles where the climate favors his pursuit of outdoor athletics.

A fifteen-year-old boy with a frustrated sex drive indulges in flights of fancy.

Adjusting to her father's suicide and mother's remarriage leads a young girl to astrology which she uses to sort her family problems.

In 1846 Concord, Massachusetts, sixteen-year-old Oliver Puckle, a reporter for his uncle's newspaper, investigates a woman's murder, aided by the tracking skills of his Algonquin friend, Charley Bigbow, and the deductive skills of Henry David Thoreau.

Despite the opposition of his family and friends, Neil befriends the brain-damaged boy newly-arrived in the neighborhood.

Keith Carter presents a photographic portrait of "Deep East Texas".

Several eerie events at his aunt's hotel prompt Larry to investigate a guest who strongly resembles Dracula.

The strange predictions of a witch help a twelve-year-old boy and his friends expose the activities of a local group of criminals.

Everyone is convinced that all Monty needs to be the fastest miler on the high school track team is heart. Monty himself is not so sure he's got what it takes until he sees a movie called "Brogg's Brain."

The Three Investigators set out to find Mr. Allen's Irish setter, one of six dogs missing from the neighborhood of Seaside, but he insists there is a dragon living in the cave in the cliff under his house. More interested in the dragon than the missing canines, Jupiter, Pete, and Bob explore the cave—and come face-to-face with the terrifying dragon! Chased by menacing scuba divers on the beach and by an eccentric neighbor on the cliff, The Three Investigators plunge into a case where danger lurks at every turn. The Three Investigators must decide, are they willing to risk their lives and return to the cave to for the clues they need to solve The Mystery of the Coughing Dragon?

A teenage boy tries to find a way of surviving in his bleak and violent city neighborhood.

Big Max, the world's greatest detective, helps the zoo keeper find a missing moose.