Platt, Kin

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

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.

Big Max, the world's greatest detective, must travel to the land of Ah-Ah-Achoo to find the king's missing pet giraffe.

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

Big Max tries to find Jumbo, the prize elephant of the King of Pooka Pooka.