John Paulits

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  • Bibliography:
    63 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    December 2000
  • Latest Book:
    September 2024
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Full Series List in Order

Philip and Emery

3 - Philip and the Haunted House (Sep-2011)
4 - Philip and the Monsters (Dec-2011)
5 - Philip and the Deadly Curst (Feb-2012)
7 - Philip and the Girl Who Couldn't Lose (Aug-2012)
8 - Philip andthe Fortune Teller (Nov-2012)

Book List in Order: 63 titles

  • Hobson's Planet

    Culp Robinson is exiled to Hobson's Planet in the year 2104 after failing in his presidential run in America. On Hobson's Planet, though, he is drawn into the same dark brew of forces that motivated him to take on and try to solve the catastrophic pr...

  • Philip and the Boy Who Said Huh?

  • Philip Gets Even

    By accident at an art show in which they are entered, Philip Felton and Emery Wyatt offend Johnny Visco, the toughest boy in sixth grade, and he promises to get even. When Johnny Visco’s attacks show no sign of stopping, Philip, Emery and Mr. Conwa...

  • Philip and the Case of Mistaken Identity and Philip and the Baby

    In Philip and the Baby Philip resents the fact that a new baby is coming into his house. Will anything get Philip to love and accept his new baby sister before he drives his parents crazy with his behavior?In Philip and the Case of Mistaken Identity ...

  • Philip and the Superstition Kid

    Emery’s clumsy and monumentally unlucky cousin Leon is coming to visit for a whole week!  Philip and Emery, best friends, are desperate to find ways to keep Leon out of their way, but Leon’s bad luck―and disaster―follows them everywhere.  R...

  • Beckoning Eternity

    The inhabitants of Guardon, a planet singular in its religious devotion, believe their God to be merciful and loving, eager to usher them into an eternal world of heavenly bliss. With the literalness of this belief at their religion’s core, there a...

  • The Empty Houses

    Dougie’s best friend Curly dies in an accident. Yet, Dougie keeps hearing Curly’s voice coming from the strangest places. When Dougie’s mom sees him talking to… nothing, she gets very worried. When Curly’s voice tells D...

  • Philip and the Angel

    How is Philip ever going to get a pet, the one thing he wants most in the world, when his parents say no to his every request? Angel, a very smart neighborhood girl, gives Philip a plan to change his parents’ mind, but the plan ends in disaster, an...

  • The Director

    The Director invites nine-year-old Tommy Whitaker to be a character in a book set in 1957. The trouble begins in the Regal movie theatre, where after the Saturday matinee. Elwood Wambo, the strange caretaker of the movie theatre, hires Tommy and his ...



  • Lanyon For Hire

    Lanyon wore out his welcome on both Hobson's Planet and Catonia, the first two planets discovered by Earth, after some harrowing adventures there. He now travels the second planetary system discovered by Earth, hiring himself out to people in need of...

  • Philip and the Haunted House

    Philip and Emery - 3

    Philip and Emery are scared out of their wits when they learn their community service assignment involves dealing with a haunted house, but it gets worse! Circumstances force the boys to sneak inside the haunted house, and when they do, they receive ...

  • Philip and the Monsters

    Philip and Emery - 4

    Could the Frankenstein monster, Dracula and the Wolfman actually move into someone’s respectable neighborhood? Philip and his best friend Emery are convinced it has happened when a suspicious new family moves in down the block. The boys have seen t...

  • Philip and the Deadly Curse

    John Paulits is a former teacher in New York City. He has published seven other children’s novels, several about Philip and Emery; a collection of horror short stories, OLIVER MUNCING, EXORCIST; as well as three adult science fiction novels, HOBSON...

  • Philip and the Deadly Curst

    Philip and Emery - 5

    Philip runs into an awful streak of bad luck at the same time as his best buddy Emery runs into a streak of good luck. When Emery reveals that he's been using a newly acquired luck charm, Philip sets out to find one of his own, but what he finds turn...

  • Toby's Trek

    Toby Manders is a bored sixteen-year-old Earth immigrant to Hobson’s Planet who is tired of living the quiet life of a farmer. After running away from his father and home, he becomes close friends with Jar Kensch, a native Walber boy. He and Jar, w...

  • Philip and the Thief

    After Philip solves a few neighborhood mysteries, he decides to open a detective agency with his best pal Emery. Their classmate Jason starts making fun of their efforts, though, and being a detective suddenly isn’t so much fun. But soon Jason is a...

  • The Mystery of Charles Dickens

    History records that on June 9, 1870, Charles Dickens died of a cerebral haemorrhage. History, however, is wrong. June 9, 1870, is the day on which Emile de la Rue murdered Charles Dickens. During a stay in Genoa in 1844-45, Charles Dickens, an accom...

  • Our Lady of Perpetual Vexation

    It’s 1964 and Smitty, Mouse, and Kelso are in their last semester of high school. These three fellows manage to get themselves into some ridiculous, bizarre, and hilarious situations -- all in their pursuit of one thing. Girls. They plot; they plan...

  • Philip and the Girl Who Couldn't Lose

    Philip and Emery - 7

    Philip runs into Jeanne, a new girl in the neighborhood, who defeats him at every game they play. Philip enlists his best pal Emery to help him, but even when they join forces, they lose to Jeanne. In his frustration, Philip foolishly assures Jeanne ...



  • A Cat Tale

    Hayden and his fellow cats find their way to paradise: TALULA TUPPERMAN’S HOME FOR DISTRESSED FELINES. But Rodney and Stanley, cat kidnappers, are on their trail, and suddenly cats begin to vanish. Can Hayden and his troop put a stop to these myste...

  • Philip and the Fortune Teller

    Philip and Emery are granted three wishes by a gypsy from the circus sideshow, but to get these wishes, they must perform a chore for the gypsy. They must recover some jewels, including a magical scarab, from a dangerous location. They undertake the ...

  • Philip andthe Fortune Teller

    Philip and Emery - 8

    Philip and Emery are granted three wishes by a gypsy from the circus sideshow, but to get these wishes, they must perform a chore for the gypsy. They must recover some jewels, including a magical scarab, from a dangerous location. They undertake the ...

  • Nemesis

    Lanyon runs into trouble when he tries to keep a crucial memory disc out of the hands of a ruthless band of blackmailers. If that isn’t bad enough, Jophena, an eleven-year-old Selenian girl and Lanyon’s traveling companion, turns what Lanyon exp...

  • Rest Is Silence

    The director of the AWB Theatre Company, Lawrence Mickelman has alienated everyone in sight with his tyrannical manner. When his body is found in the locked theatre, a sword from Hamlet in his chest, the troupe’s owner asks Mark Louis, one of the a...

  • Philip and the Loser

    Philip and Emery dread their school assignment: perform an activity demonstrating brotherhood. Philip gets an inspiration, though, when a neighbor tells him about her women’s club fair which will raise money for charity. He and Emery decide to crea...

  • Ant-nee's Golden Notebook

    Mayhem and mix-ups follow Bruno Brunotaglia’s murder of a hit man sent after him by a rival mob. Panic stricken, Bruno leaves behind a briefcase of money and an import notebook. Two down-and-out friends find the briefcase and notebook, and Bruno ne...

  • The Golden Mushroom

    Soon-to-be fifth graders, Paul Drummond and Billy Sparks’ summer vacation at the beach with Lige Drummond, Paul’s grandfather, is interrupted when Lige’s best friend Jess Hubbard disappears, and the boys are off to find him in Shumbus, a strang...

  • Vengeance

    Follow Lanyon as he attacks a planet-wide drug ring; joins up with his twelve-year-old Selenian friend Jophena to rescue a team of scientists from Tellurian marauders; and seeks vengeance on those responsible for the death of Honna, his Malcosian lov...

  • The Revenge of the Critches

    Things did not stay peaceful long in Shumbus after Paul and Billy’s summer adventure there. The Critches are out for revenge. The Golden Mushroom is in danger and so is the very city where the Shumians have lived forever. With Jess Hubbard planning...



  • Beckonging Eternity

    The inhabitants of Guardon, a planet singular in its religious devotion, believe their God to be merciful and loving, eager to usher them into an eternal world of heavenly bliss. With the literalness of this belief at their religion's core,...

  • A Dying Fall

    When the AWB Theatre troupe accepts an invitation to perform on the tropical island of Illyria, they get more than they bargained for. Sudden death. Mark Louis, company member and amateur detective, suspects murder. The actors, however, must retur...

  • Philip and the Sneaky Trashmen

    Philip begins his summer in a bad mood. His mother insists he clean his room. But when Philip allows Leon, the clumsy jinx-boy of the neighborhood, to help, it sends Philip and his best friend Emery off on the wildest summer adventure they’ve ever ...

  • Contagion

    What Lanyon hopes will be a simple trip to transport a prisoner who has been giving the Malcosian government trouble ends up in a deadly game of hide-and-seek after his scout cruiser is forced to crash land by the prisoner’s allies. Help comes fro...

  • Emmaline Gremlin

    At stake-the deed to The Clifton Heights Home for Children. Emmaline Gremlin wants to close the orphanage. Her runaway husband wants to turn the deed over to Mr. Bloober, Superintendent of the Home, to ensure its continuation. Mickey Allston...

  • Planet Zoron

    Mark Foy has returned home from his surprising trip to Planet Zoron. Prince Zincor’s throne is safe. But is it? Who shows up but Zincor’s Uncle Blaylock, still determined to take over Zincor’s throne, and his partner, the evil scientific genius...

  • Rescue from Zoron

    Mark Foy has returned home from his surprising trip to Planet Zoron. Prince Zincor’s throne is safe. But is it? Who shows up but Zincor’s Uncle Blaylock, still determined to take over Zincor’s throne, and his partner, the evil scientific genius...

  • Philip and the Miserable Christmas

    Philip’s Christmas turns into a disaster when his troublesome younger cousin Francis shows up to stay for a few days. Nothing is safe, not the Christmas tree, not the presents, and certainly not the good cheer of the season. Philip enlists his best...

  • To Prove a Villian

    Kristy King, 26-year-old actress and member of New York City’s AWB Theatre Company, barely misses being struck by a hit-and-run driver while on a visit home to Brunton, Pennsylvania. A week later, her brother is killed by a hit-and-run driver. She ...

  • A Spider Steeped

    Mark Louis and Kristy King become involved with murder when they visit Erin Blakely, a college friend of Kristy’s whom she hasn’t seen in half-a-dozen years. During their visit, Erin’s husband Pete is murdered just as Jeremy, an old college boy...



  • Philip and the Case of Mistaken Identity

    In Philip and the Baby, Philip resents the fact that a new baby is coming into his house. Will anything get Philip to love and accept his new baby sister before he drives his parents crazy with his behavior? In Philip and the Case of Mistaken Identit...

  • Deception

    Lanyon takes on the job of recovering a shipment of rators, weapons imported from Earth, which have gone missing from the spaceport. A not-so-merry chase begins as Lanyon has trouble detecting the true trail to follow from the false. Jophena, his 1...

  • Philip and the Dragon

    Philip’s teacher gives the class an impossible assignment. He calls it a “scavenger hunt/research project.” Philip blames it on his classmate Cecil, who asked for harder work to do. Philip and Emery team up, and thanks to a combination of inspi...

  • The Mountaintop

    Jason, a seventeen-year-old member of the Amerian race, sets out for the mountaintop, an act forbidden in his society, to determine once and for all the truth of his city’s beliefs. On his journey there and back, Jason runs into some unexpected and...

  • Henny and Lloyd, Private Eyes

    Henny and Lloyd, age mid-twenties, have completed their online course in private detecting and are now licensed PIs.Henny and Lloyd, in their mid-twenties, have completed their online detective course and are now licensed private eyes. They've rented...

  • Philip and the Mummy

    Can a homemade mummy rise from the dead? Philip and Emery’s pal Leon thinks so. He buries a tiny mummy in his backyard. When they attend a birthday party held in the Egyptian room of the museum, and a real, live, walking, talking mummy shows up...

  • The Sad Case of Brownie Terwilliger

    Brownie Terwilliger looks at his opportunity to run for mayor of Philadelphia as a chance to right the wrongs of a city. He hopes to oust Milton Streezo, the incumbent, but Streezo does not take kindly to this challenge and concocts a plan to destroy...

  • Retribution

    Lanyon For Hire:  No job is too tough to solve, no matter how many people get hurt.They say most murders occur within families. Lanyon finds out how true that is as he steps into three family feuds that turn deadly quickly....

  • Collected Short Stories

    A man buried alive; the extinction of a gloried species; the mingling of interstellar races; a mysterious amulet; a fearful child; an animal-loving old hag; the assassination of the Almighty. Stories of horror, mystery, fantasy, and science fiction c...

  • The Adventures of Philip and Emery: Volume One

    Philip and the Haunted House When circumstances force Philip and Emery to sneak into a haunted house, they discover something that gives them the shock of their lives!

    Philip and the Monsters Philip and his best friend Emery are certain the ...



  • The Adventures of Philip and Emery: Volume Two

    Philip and the Superstition Kid: Philip and Emery don't know what to do about Emery's monumentally clumsy cousin Leon, who is visiting for a week and who brings bad luck with him wherever he goes. Can they convince Leon to go home before his bad ...

  • Return to Zoron

    Mark Foy is summoned back to Zoron by Princess Zayla, bored at being left alone as her brother goes off adventuring. She doesn't realize they are in for a frightening adventure set off by the reappearance of Blaylock, the evil uncle, and Fentar, the ...

  • The Goshmen

    Paul Drummond and Billy Sparks make their third trip to Shumbus, the strange land within the Earth. When they arrive, Argo takes them on a journey to a land of people forgotten in time, who hold a key to the history of Shumbus...if only they can esca...

  • The Story of the Lone Ranger

  • Philip and the Boy Who Said, Huh?

    Philip's new friend Eugene has some strange ways about him, especially the way he sometimes ignores people. Philip decides to investigate, and when he finally figures out Eugene's secret, it upends not only Eugene's life, but also Philip's own....

  • A Summer Murder

    A group of young men rents downstairs while a group of young women rents upstairs in a New Jersey beach house for the summer of 1971. One of the girls, Eileen Meredith, is found murdered in her bedroom at the house. Local Detective Hanahan, on the ve...

  • The Ghosts of Northwood Cemetery

    When Greg Logan takes his girlfriend Karen on a late-night walk through Northwood Cemetery, Karen is spooked by the silence, the darkness, and something she sees but can't explain. When, soon after, they meet with two other teenagers in the cemetery,...

  • Oliver Muncing Exorcist

    Six edge-of-your-seat tales of the supernatural. When a catastrophic invasion by elementals from the other side kills Oliver's grandfather and leaves Oliver crippled, he chooses to dedicate his life to investigating other-worldly phenomena, espe...

  • Henny and Lloyd's Biggest Cases

     Henny and Lloyd, Private Eyes, solve some of the most baffling cases of their newly-launched careers.Henny and Lloyd—private eyes. The young men get off to a solid start and solve some tricky cases, but now a few doozies loom. An innocent...

  • The Girl in the Graveyard

    Judy Lang, age nine, is spending the summer vacation at her grandparents' house in the country. Strange occurrences—toys mysteriously appearing, a strange voice beckoning to her, and finally the unlikely presence of a girl her own age. Judy lis...

  • Henny and Lloyd's Casebook

    A murder in a flower shop sends Henny and Lloyd on a not-so-merry chase into the mysterious family dynamics of a clan who live by their own rules. But nothing is too bizarre for Henny and Lloyd. Noses to the grindstone they follow the clues and shock...

  • Henny and Lloyd Fight Crime

    Henny and Lloyd crack four new cases as only they can. A ride up the Jersey Turnpike, an airplane crash, a collection of turtles, and a broken heart combine for murder. How can this be, you wonder? Who can unravel such a mixed-up conglomeration of ev...

  • Philip and the Case of Mistaken Identity & Philip and the Baby

    • / General Fiction
    • Buy

    In Philip and the Baby Philip resents the fact that a new baby is coming into his house.   Will anything get Philip to love and accept his new baby sister before he drives his parents crazy with his behavior?In Philip and the Case of Mistak...

  • To Prove a Villain

    • / Mystery
    • Buy Buy

    When Mark Louis investigates the hit-and-run death of the brother of Kristy King, his live-in lover and colleague in their downtown, NYC acting troupe, it unexpectedly puts a fatal strain on their relationship. Kristy insists the death was an acciden...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

John Paulits has published 63 books.

John Paulits does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Henny and Lloyd Fight Crime, was published in September 2024.

The first book by John Paulits, Hobson's Planet, was published in December 2000.

Yes. John Paulits has 1 series.
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