Gay Toltl Kinman

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  • Bibliography:
    31 Books
  • First Book:
    December 2002
  • Latest Book:
    September 2025
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Books in Order: 31 titles

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  • The Mystery At The Horse Auction

    A horse auction is at Rodeo Ranch for the weekend with lots of booths and events. One of the booth owners, who also has horses in the auction, says his daughter was kidnapped. The three have a case! The girl, 16, was to be married next month. An arra...

  • The Mystery of Sable Island

    The fourth in the Stable Mystery Series. Doc Vet takes the three 11-year-olds to a horse breed exhibition. Someone is stealing brochures from four of the stalls where the horses are being shown. They attend a magic show-and some of the brochures are ...

  • The Mystery of the Silver Saddle

    The third in the Stables mystery series featuring three 11-year-olds in the summer before they go into the sixth grade. They are detectives who solve mysteries. Meri is of Hawaiian descent, Rollo is black, and the narrator is from Canada. In this sto...

  • Agatha and Derringer Get Cozy

    In Agatha and Derringer Get Cozy, thirteen of today's cleverest mystery and suspense authors get cozy with mystery fans in thirteen original mysteries written exclusively by Agatha and Derringer Award-winning authors. In some of their most creative a...

  • The Mystery at the Rodeo Ranch

    The second story in the Stables Mystery Series. Three eleven-year-olds-a girl from Hawaii, a boy who is Black, and a girl who is Caucasian-have their own detective agency to solve cases. Their case this time is who is doing stuff on Rodeo Ranch-like ...

  • Edgar & Shamus Go Golden

    Edgar & Shamus welcomes mystery connoisseurs to the Golden Age of Mystery and Murder...Have we ever really left? Has the Golden Age ever really slipped over the falls? The puzzle, the who-dun-it, the why-dun-it, the how-dun-it, and the unshakable ali...

  • The Shooter Mystery Short Story Series

    What happens afterwards-after people are shot, or shot at by a gunman at the airport. They're in transit from one place to another, then their life is changed radically. But they still have a life, as some others do not. Meet Sylvia, Celeste, Sonja, ...

  • Burials

    The story behind the story of Burials.One day in the courthouse where I was working, I headed for the elevators. Slowly pacing before them was a tall, slender man with a salt and pepper brush cut. I knew who he was, although we'd never met-a judge, a...

  • The Mystery at the Stables

    Three sleuths, two girls and a boy, during the summer before going into sixth grade, solve the mystery of a missing Thoroughbred, a valuable racehorse. It turns out not to be the case of a simple horsenapping. The theft involves the whole upscale com...



  • Jo Peters Mysteries

    This book starts off with an article explaining how Jo (Joslyn) Peters came to be, and contains all of Jo’s cases, sequentially, in the form of short stories, a play, and the beginning chapters of two books. Jo began life as a Los Angeles County As...

  • Greenway

    Greenway was the lovely British summer home on the River Dart of Agatha Christie herself. The house is the scene for a modern day set of murders. Call in Miss Marple..or an intrepid modern day writer!...

  • Hollywood 1942

    LAPD Officer Agnes Graham and Hollywood P.I. Marlowe try to find the killer of Agnes’ LAPD partner as she might be accused of the murder. They become involved in Hollywood Union politics, payoffs, cover-ups, mobsters, and the murder of a movie star...

  • Stand Down Mystery Stories

    In this series of six sequential stories, we follow Char who has just returned from ten years in the Army. She had her legs blown off in Afghanistan and struggles with getting her life back, while working at her parents’ Motel L.A. Char was a Milit...

  • Deaths in Hollywood 1942

    Deaths in Hollywood 1942: The Marlowe and LAPD Officer Agnes Graham Mystery Series is a collection of three stories about LAPD Officer Agnes Graham and her PI friend, Marlowe investigating murder mysteries occurred in Hollywood in 1942 specifically. ...

  • A Man of Honor

    LAPD Officer Agnes Graham is patrolling Hollywood Boulevard when her PI friend Marlowe invites her to the off-shore gambling ship, the SS Rex. He needs a date for the investigation he is doing about the harassment of a popular movie star. The person ...

  • Super Sleuth

    Alison Leigh Powers, Super Sleuth, middle-reader mystery series includes The Secret of the Strange Staircase, The Mystery of the Missing Miniature Books (an Independent E-Book Awards Finalist), The Mystery of the Octagon House (EPPIE Award Winner, Ag...

  • Death In...: 17 Mysteries

    DEATH IN... is a collection of seventeen mysteries set in different parts of Europe and the United States. Each story has been published separately on Kindle, as well as in ezines, magazines, newspapers, and anthologies. For example, “Death in Las ...

  • Death in Hamburg 1974

    Set in 1974, the story opens from the POV of a man who has just sent his troops into battle. He is in his office thinking about past battles, wondering if his current plan will work. Meanwhile a plane carrying an AngelGuide American tour group, in th...

  • Murder and Mayhem at the Huntington Library

    PART ONE By gay toltl kinman Short Stories and Poems featuring Jane Jillson, Investigator in The Huntington's Security Department PART TWO By gay toltl kinman and Jill Cogen Humorous Short Stories and Poems featuring Spyder, the accident prone thief ...



  • Death in Rancho Las Amigas

    A suddenly-widowed professor of poetry abruptly leaves her home in Los Angeles to visit Taos, New Mexico, where she and her older husband had many happy trips. She goes there in hopes of mentally and emotionally healing. Fortuitously, she finds an ap...

  • Upclose and Personal

    Jo Peters, a burned-out Los Angeles County District Attorney, has quit and taken a part-time job as a City Attorney for Mirasol, her hometown, which is adjacent to Los Angeles. Here she won’t have to deal with murder and mayhem. Since Jo is only wo...

  • The Adventures of Lauren MacPhearson

    Lauren, 9 1/2, who comes from Scotland, has elective mutism, but that doesn't stop her from having adventures, which she tells us about in four stories of her encounters with thieves, bears, forest fires, white water, biting horses, stolen art and gh...

  • Gilly

    The first part of the book is fiction, and the manual is non-fiction.In Divorce, Gilly, 11, tells how she copes, some days not at all, with the impending divorce of her parents. Her younger sister, Honey, gets into serious trouble, and her two older ...

  • Death in a Small Town

    Jo Peters, a former LA County District Attorney, once thought that big city life and glamor were her future. But after a brush with death and a truckload of murder and mayhem in LA, Jo decides that home, Mirasol, CA, doesn't look so bad after all. Sh...

  • Death in Covent Garden

    Matt and Ivy Sampson, two American tourists, are enjoying their holiday on a tour of Europe. As they enjoy the sights and sounds of Covent Garden, they unwittingly get involved in a transfer of information between two foreign spies who are passing se...

  • Wolf Castle

    Wolf Castle is an eerily beautiful castle settled on the Pacific coast of California. Built by an eccentric Baron who dabbled as a naturalist and scientist, it has seen its share of tragedies. The old Baron died in a mysterious fire, and the young wi...

  • The Secret of the Equestrian Park

  • The Mystery of the Missing Miniature Books

  • The Mystery of the Octagon House



  • The Mystery of the Missing Arabian

  • The Secret of the Strange Staircase

    Alison Leigh Powers, 11, and best friend, Mitty, look for a secret hiding place in an old mansion. They learn the history of the house from the builder's granddaughter, who is now ninety-two years old. She tells them that her grandfather's first w...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Gay Toltl Kinman has published 31 books.

Gay Toltl Kinman does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Mystery At The Horse Auction, was published in September 2025.

The first book by Gay Toltl Kinman, The Secret of the Strange Staircase, was published in December 2002.

No. Gay Toltl Kinman does not write books in series.
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