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  • Bibliography:
    22 Books
  • First Book:
    January 1968
  • Latest Book:
    April 2015
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Book List in Order: 22 titles



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    "OUT OF IT" "He was squeezing his arms and his legs, in turn. Then he put his hands on his chest and rubbed it. 'I don't know,' he said. 'I feel funny.' 'What do you mean--funny?' 'Like there's nothing there--like I'm empty. Like I was always afra...



  • Take a white witch named Aurelia Hepburn who can cast spells, raise storms, summon demons, predict the future, and read minds; add a scientist working in ultra-sonics and a band of very determined black magicians who want to learn his secret inventio...






  • Max Roper is compelled to use all of his resources to stay alive long enough to last through the mystery of The Kissing Gourami. What starts out a fairly simple and even downgrading assignment, quickly becomes an obsessive search for a brutal killer,...



  • When millionaire jockey Willie Rich is murdered immediately after winning the $100,000 Princess Stakes, his old friend Max Roper, successful investigator, decides to find out who-dunit. It was set up to look like an accidental death--Willie drowned i...



  • Max Roper, durable investigator, is sapped, doped and imprisoned on a boat apparently used by a mysterious Oriental for business purposes. The point of this caper is to have Max carry a warning to basketball superstar Jo-Jo Gonzaga that he must throw...



  • Felix Witter is the reigning Mr. Universe. He is in training for the current international body-building competition -- just another dedicated weight lifter with extraordinary muscular development.He is murdered during his last workout on the day pre...













  • Big Bill Stanwood is a lost man since his beloved wife, Katie, died. He has left his job in the homicide division of the Los Angeles Police Department; detective work has no interest for him anymore But Bill must keep the promise he made to Katie. He...



  • Who stole the King of Pooka Pooka's prize elephant? Someone has stolen the great gray beast. The King calls in Big Max, the world's greatest detective. But the clues are very puzzling. Could this be too big a mystery even for Big Max?...



  • Featuring a perennially popular I Can Read character first introduced in 1965, Big Max and the Mystery of the Missing Giraffe is a humorous adventure that will delight beginning readers.

    Jake the giraffe is missing, and Big Max is on the c...



  • Sixteen-year-old Oliver Puckle, news gatherer for the Concord Freeman in the summer of 1846, has his work cut out for him when word arrives of a gruesome murder at Walden Pond. It seems the only citizen who is not a suspect is the poetphilosopher Hen...



  • When Donald Lawson, successful mystery-story writer, is murdered, suspects include almost everyone who ever knew him. He was a man who had no friends and deserved to have none. After his death, it was discovered that he had abandoned his wife, betray...



  • Max Roper is one of the new-fangled breed who includes murder in his arsenal of security activities. In The Pushbutton Butterfly, he has to track a missing girl through a myriad of fascinating, violent, and potentially evil people, including an ideal...






  • Big, brash, good-looking Hondo Kenyon is one of the Los Angeles Dodgers’ best pitchers, a southpaw screwballer with the necessary skills and fastball to keep the opposition from tearing his head off, and the team is counting on the ex-small town Pe...



  • A wonderfully imaginative blend of "buddy book" with Edgar Allan Poe's "The Gold Bug," complete with ghosties and ghoulies and big strong English bulldogs that go bump in the night. Well, only one English bulldog, but there is plenty of Sinbad to g...



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    The games are tennis and murder … and private eye Max Roper has a bevy of beautiful tennis competitors to turn his head when he goes after the murderer of lovely Aussie tennis star Wendy Cliff. It was set up to look as if it was one of her opponent...


Award-Winning Books by Kin Platt

Sinbad and Me
1967 Edgar Allan Poe Award -- Juvenile


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Kin Platt has published 22 books.

Kin Platt does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Sinbad and Me, was published in April 2015.

The first book by Kin Platt, The Boy Who Could Make Himself Disappear, was published in January 1968.

No. Kin Platt does not write books in series.