John Holt

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  • Bibliography:
    33 Books
  • First Book:
    June 1972
  • Latest Book:
    March 2025
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Book List in Order: 33 titles

  • Freedom and Beyond

  • Underachieving School

    The Underachieving School is a collection of essays and articles written and compiled by Holt, each brimming with inspiration and ideas on how to teach children -- taking into account the ways in which children actually learn. Throu...

  • Hunted

    When big corporate coal strip-mining interests begin to take over a ranching town in southeastern Montana--wide-open coulee and bluff country--all hell breaks loose. It seems the land is fighting back: vast sage flats erupt in fire, massive storms bl...

  • The Mackenzie File

    Kendall could just see the television screen. There was a photograph of Governor Frank Reynolds. Across the bottom of the screen the ticker tape announced in large black letters 'Governor Reynolds Murdered'. The voice over was filling in whatever ...

  • The Marinski Affair

    The Marinski Affair began as a dull mundane case involving a missing husband. Okay, so he was a rich missing husband, but he was nonetheless, still only a missing husband. The case soon developed into one involving robbery, kidnapping, blackmail and ...

  • Epidemic

    Tom Kendall, a down to earth private detective, is asked to investigate the death of a young newspaper reporter. The evidence shows quite clearly that it was an accident: a simple, dreadful accident. That is the finding of the coroner and the local p...

  • The Kammersee Affair

    The lake was flat and calm, with barely a ripple. Its dark waters glistening, reflecting the moonlight as though it were a mirror. Fritz Marschall knew that neither he, nor his friend, should really have been there. They, like many others before them...

  • A Killing in the City

    'To make a killing in the City' is a phrase often used within the financial world, to indicate making a large profit on investments, or through dealings on the stock market - the bigger the profit, the bigger the killing. However, Tom Kendall, a priv...

  • The MacKenzie Dossier

    Across the bottom of the screen the ticker tape announced in large black letters 'Governor Reynolds Murdered'. Apparently his body had been discovered earlier that morning, lying in his garage. He had been shot twice. One shot to the upper chest, the...



  • The Thackery Journal

    Civil War â€" the worst kind of war that any Nation could face. Fighting against itself there could be no winners in such a war, a war that divides communities; splits families; and makes enemies of long time friends. As the first sounds of gun fire ...

  • Kendall

    Tom Kendall had been with the 32nd Precinct, New York Police Department for just under ten years. But now he wanted a change. Now he wanted to start his own Private Detective Agency. He had grand ideas. He wasn't interested in just any old case. Oh n...

  • The Candy Man

    The name's Daniels, Jack Daniels - just like the whiskey you know. I'm a Private Detective. And I can't help butting my nose into other people's business. It's what I do. You get used to it. It becomes a way of life almost. After a while it comes nat...

  • A Dead Certainty

    I'm not a gambling man. I mean life's one big gamble ain't it. The odds are stacked against you, you just can't win. You know there are some people who will do anything to make sure that they win, even if it means eliminating anyone or anything that ...

  • Jack Daniels Casebook

    The name’s Daniels, Jack Daniels â€" just like the whiskey you know. I’m a Private Detective. And I can’t help butting my nose into other people’s business. It’s what I do. You get used to it. It becomes a way of life almost. After a while ...

  • Trouble in Mind

    Have you ever noticed that things aren't always what they seem. Life will always throw you a curved ball when you least expect it. We see only what we expect to see, and sometimes we could be in for a big surprise. And I sure got a surprise I can tel...

  • Danny's World

    Danny's World is the story of Danny, an amazing handicapped boy who won the fight to overcome the stigma of being a disabled or handicapped child following the Great Depression. The power of superstition and fear held sway over the lives of families ...

  • Death in a Live Forest

    Very little comes easy in the West, not even murder. Here, Ed Bouchee, a small town private detective living on the northern high plains, is asked to investigate a gruesome murder. From that moment on nothing is as it seems. Up is down and white fade...

  • Where Paradise Lay

    Natalie and the valley’s derelicts live in a wilderness paradise, but a gold mining company is about to savage a local mountain known as Jane’s Hill. Can they stop it? Probably not. But Natalie -- a woman whose attitude was sizably influenced by ...

  • A Case of Murder

    Whittaker passed the drinks over. “Anyway, it seems that he’s got himself into a bit of bother,” he continued. “A very serious bit of bother.” “Bother?” repeated Kendall. Whittaker heaved a sigh. “Yes you know,” he replied. “Troub...



  • Diagnosis Murder

    “Mr. Kendall, in the past few months there have been a number of doctors who have mysteriously disappeared, or whose deaths were either alleged to be accidents, or were suicides, or they were actually murdered.” Kendall made a mental note to...

  • Blown Away Under the Big Sky

    Biederbeck, Montana PI Ed Bouchee is asked by his friend Dirt Tidrow to quietly look into a series of strange, unexplained and savage deaths of three local fly fishermen on the Yellowstone. Who did this and how? Bouchee’s investigation as he works ...

  • Plain Crazy in Paradise

    The West has been celebrated with songs, words and photographs for well over 100 years. This novel is about poet John Wesley Gill, who lives in the Sweet Grass Hills, and his struggle to come to grips with the changing West as he also decides to resu...

  • Hunted in Paradise

    Jack Graves lived off the land, hunting and fishing and making his own way in this harsh, dry country that lay well away from cities. Free. Lonesome. No rules. But then his solitude is interrupted. Dark Star helicopters hovering over Mad Woman Gulch....

  • Random Shots

    The author poses the rhetorical question: “So how did this book come to be? How did this collection of articles and stories wind up in one place in this book?” At a local bookstore in Livingston, Montana, a group of writers were talking about com...

  • An Act Of Murder

  • The Door

    That old door had been standing there for many years. Just a solid timber door and a frame. Just a door ..... an ordinary door .... Are you sure there's nothing to worry about? Nothing to be afraid of? Are you absolutely certain that it is just a doo...

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  • The HOUSEMAID'S CHRONICLES

  • LOVE'S BLUEPRINT



  • What Do I Do Monday?

    When teachers listened to Holt's talks, or wrote him letters as hundreds did, invariably they would say something like: I understand what you're saying, but what can I do about this in my own classroom? What do I do on Monday? This book is a rich...

  • Assassinato em Londres

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     Killing in the city é uma expressão muito comum no meio financeiro inglês para designar os altos lucros obtidos com investimentos ou comércio de ações - quanto maior o lucro, maior o killi...

  • L'Uomo Delle Caramelle

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    Il mio nome è Daniels, Jack Daniels, proprio come il whiskey, lo conoscete. Sono un investigatore privato. E non posso fare a meno di ficcare il naso negli affari degli altri. È quel che faccio. Ci si abitua. Diventa quasi uno stile di ...

  • The Lost Patrol

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    Can men overcome their darkest nature and most compelling fears in this life, even if this struggle ultimately leads to their deaths? The wildly spectacular Arctic north of Canada is the setting for The Lost Patrol, a page from history Four men were ...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

John Holt has published 33 books.

The next book by John Holt, What Do I Do Monday?, will be published in March 2025.

The first book by John Holt, Freedom and Beyond, was published in June 1972.

No. John Holt does not write books in series.
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