William Johnston Books in Order

A search for a missing or elusive figure draws the characters into a mystery where appearances are unreliable. Johnston builds the story around pursuit, suspicion, and the trouble that follows when answers stay hidden.

Young surgeon Ben Casey faces the urgent demands of hospital medicine and the difficult people behind each case. His blunt intensity collides with professional rules as he tries to help patients in crisis.

This comic mystery follows a marriage pushed into increasingly strange and dangerous territory. As domestic tensions collide with deception and crime, the characters find that escaping their troubles is anything but simple.

At Blair General Hospital, Dr. James Kildare faces a case in which medical care and complicated emotions cannot be separated. With Dr. Gillespie's guidance, he learns that love can make treatment harder, not easier.

Dr. Kildare confronts a patient problem that calls for more than clinical knowledge. As personal fears and hopes complicate the case, he must learn when compassion is as necessary as a diagnosis.

At Alden General Hospital, experienced head nurse Liz Thorpe and young nurse Gail Lucas face the demands of a busy ward. Patient crises and personal worries test their skill, empathy, and endurance.

Nurse Powell finds her professional duties complicated by two competing emotional attachments. In the pressure of hospital life, she must decide what kind of future she wants without letting anyone else make the choice.

Yogi Bear and Boo Boo meet a magician whose bad temper threatens to spoil the fun at Jellystone Park. Yogi's bright ideas lead to comic trouble before the friends can set things right.

A challenging case at Blair General tests Dr. Kildare's judgment and patience. He searches for the key to helping a patient while Dr. Gillespie reminds him that medicine rarely offers a simple answer.

Agent 86 Maxwell Smart races against rival agents to find an extraordinary computer that has gone missing. With Agent 99 and Fang nearby, Max must save the day despite his talent for making every mission harder.

In the town of Borzano, a growing fear changes the way people view one another. This suspenseful story follows characters forced to confront secrets, suspicion, and the threat closing in around their community.

KAOS has a dangerous plan, and Max Smart ends up with information its agents desperately want back. With Agent 99 and Agent 44, he must stay alive long enough to stop a new disaster.

A new KAOS threat puts Max Smart on the trail of perilous pellets and the people who want to use them. CONTROL needs Max's courage, Agent 99's skill, and a little luck.

Max and Agent 99 travel to Africa to find Dr. Livingston, inventor of a formula KAOS wants for world domination. The mission is dangerous enough before Max's improvising turns it into chaos.

Max Smart lands in another CONTROL crisis where opposing sides have the power to bring each other down. He must untangle the scheme before KAOS does, while giving the Chief plenty to worry about.

A troubling silence lies at the center of this tense mystery. As hidden truths and damaged relationships emerge, the people involved must decide whether speaking up will bring relief or make the danger worse.

A snake charmer with the power to make people believe almost anything becomes the target of CONTROL and KAOS. Max and 99 must work with an enemy agent, which makes trust the real problem.

A mild-mannered man with extraordinary abilities tries to handle crime fighting without losing control of his ordinary life. The result is a comic superhero adventure full of secret identities and awkward heroics.

When KAOS captures and brainwashes Hymie the Robot, Max must recover his mechanical colleague before the damage spreads. Agent 99 helps keep the mission on track as Max tries not to lose CONTROL himself.

Sister Bertrille arrives at Convent San Tanco in Puerto Rico and discovers that wind and her cornette can lift her into the air. Her effort to use this strange ability for good quickly brings comic complications.

At Convent San Tanco, Sister Bertrille finds another local problem that needs solving. Her kind intentions, unusual flying talent, and a burst of inventive thinking turn a simple plan into a lively convent adventure.

A strange new mystery unsettles the community around Convent San Tanco. Sister Bertrille investigates in her own well-meaning way, with aerial mishaps and comic misunderstandings never far behind.

Max and 99 must escort Professor Wormser von BOOM to a secret North Pole laboratory. To evade KAOS, they take a wildly indirect route through deserts, rivers, and foreign capitals.

Sister Bertrille and the nuns of San Tanco face an outing that refuses to go as planned. A picnic becomes an unlikely rescue mission, with the convent's airborne novice at the center of the confusion.

Max and 99 follow KAOS assassins to a secret convention aboard a train, where passengers begin disappearing. Max must uncover the enemy's plan before he becomes the next person to vanish.

A group of young people face a frightening threat connected to the sea. Cut off from easy answers, they must work out whom to trust as an unfamiliar danger disrupts their isolated world.

This novelization follows a central character named Barney through a story shaped by personal trouble and changing relationships. Johnston keeps the focus on the pressures that force Barney to confront his own choices.

Samantha's magical family life gets another jolt when an unusual relative brings trouble to the Stephens household. Darren tries to keep things normal, but magic and family misunderstandings have other ideas.

Mike Brady and Carol Martin bring their children together after marriage, creating one crowded new household. As the six siblings adjust to sharing a home, the family learns that blending lives takes patience and humor.

At an American high school, teacher Pete Dixon and counselor Liz McIntyre help students face problems that do not end with the last bell. The story mixes classroom life with personal choices and social pressures.

Sam Weskit is swept into an absurd space adventure involving a spaceship, strange characters, and the improbable planet Framingham. The story leans into broad comedy as every new encounter becomes more bizarre.

A bomb threat brings fear and confusion to a high-school classroom. Teachers and students must respond under pressure, while the crisis exposes tensions that had been hiding in plain sight.

Detective John Klute comes to New York searching for a missing man and finds a link to call girl Bree Daniels. As Bree realizes she is being watched, the investigation becomes a tense fight for survival.

A visit to an old castle becomes a suspense story shaped by secrets, isolation, and unstable behavior. The people inside must decide what is real before fear turns every suspicion into a threat.

A young psychiatrist enters Dunsmoor, an institution where bizarre cases and violent deaths blur the line between delusion and reality. Each new patient story pulls him deeper into the asylum's grim secrets.

In 1937 Los Angeles, ex-cop turned private eye Miles Banyon investigates after a woman is murdered in his office. The case leads through old grudges, dangerous suspects, and a knot of competing motives.

At Foxhollow, power and private history shape a tense story of control and suspicion. As the people around its master uncover what has been concealed, old loyalties become difficult to trust.

A mystery unfolds around the unsettling connection between a clock and a bell. Johnston builds a compact suspense tale in which timing, memory, and hidden motives all matter more than they first appear.

Fonzie becomes tangled in a new problem involving Richie, the Cunninghams, and their circle at Arnold's. The gang tries to keep things cool, but the usual teenage misunderstandings keep getting in the way.

Richie and his friends navigate the hazards of dating, reputation, and teenage expectations in 1950s Milwaukee. With Fonzie nearby, a plan to go steady becomes more complicated than anyone expects.

Set against a family and community under pressure, this drama follows young people trying to define themselves apart from inherited expectations. Love, ambition, and conflict pull parents and children in different directions.

A family relationship is tested when one brother's place in the past and present becomes impossible to ignore. The novel explores rivalry, loyalty, and the difficult truths that relatives keep from one another.

A disruption to the gang's familiar Milwaukee routine puts Richie and his friends on alert. Fonzie steps in to help, but a small social problem soon grows into a comic test of loyalty and nerve.

The Sweathogs take on another Buchanan High problem with more confidence than preparation. Kotter tries to guide Barbarino, Horshack, Epstein, and Washington before their latest scheme goes completely off course.

A summer friendship changes the lives of two young people confronting illness and loss. The story finds warmth and pain in their growing bond, while the season's beauty makes its limits feel even sharper.

A character facing a difficult emotional choice must decide whether to follow duty, comfort, or love. Johnston's relationship drama focuses on the cost of honesty when every possible decision could hurt someone.

Fonzie's latest encounter draws Richie and the gang into an unfamiliar social scene. The friends must sort through jealousies, rumors, and mixed signals before a fun idea becomes a serious mess.

An unexpected opportunity puts Fonzie in the spotlight. As attention and expectations build, Richie and the gang wonder whether the Fonz can stay himself while everyone else treats him like a star.

Mrs. Barthelme's disturbing behavior draws those around her into a tense web of doubt and revelation. What seems like madness may conceal a deeper story, and the truth proves dangerous to uncover.

Kotter's old schoolmates, the Sweathogs, turn an ordinary school challenge into a comic adventure. Barbarino, Horshack, Epstein, and Washington must prove they are more capable than Buchanan High expects.

A money-making idea involving bikes promises excitement for the Happy Days gang. But business, friendship, and teenage pride prove harder to balance than anyone imagined, even with Fonzie offering advice.

A memory of a kiss brings old feelings and unfinished choices back into focus. As the past presses on the present, the characters must decide whether love can survive what time has changed.

The Sweathogs decide they can handle a bigger challenge than usual, with predictably messy results. Kotter gives them room to try, even as their ambition threatens to create a new schoolwide headache.

A chance to report the news gives the Sweathogs a new way to get into trouble. Their search for a story tests friendships, school rules, and Kotter's ability to keep the class focused.

Vinnie Barbarino considers leaving school, forcing Kotter and the other Sweathogs to confront what his decision means. Beneath the jokes, the class must show Vinnie that Buchanan High may still have a place for him.

When Fonzie becomes the person everyone wants advice from, private problems begin piling up fast. Richie and the gang learn that even the coolest person in Milwaukee cannot solve every question easily.

Fonzie enters the unfamiliar world of college, where his usual confidence gets a real workout. Richie and his friends watch as the Fonz faces new rules, new people, and unexpected challenges.

When the Sweathogs take a stand over a school issue, their protest becomes harder to manage than they planned. Kotter must help them make their point without letting the situation spin out of control.

In imperial Rome, Caligula's rise leaves the court trapped between fear, ambition, and desire. This novelization follows the young emperor as absolute power turns private excess into a public threat.

A life-and-death mystery follows characters caught in a situation where danger reaches from the beginning of life to its possible end. Johnston builds the tension through secrets, vulnerability, and urgent choices.

Detective Dick Tracy faces the criminal empire of Big Boy Caprice in a city full of colorful gangsters. As the case grows more personal, Tracy must use every clue to stop Caprice's takeover.