The Mystery of the Empty Safe

The Aldens start a party planning business in Greenfield, but the fun and games comes to a halt after a safe is robbed during an event. When another safe is emptied at the next birthday party, it's time for the Boxcar Children to trade their party hats for detective caps.Gertrude Chandler Warner grew up in Putnam, Connecticut. She wrote The Boxcar Children because she had always dreamed about what it would be like to live in a caboose or a freight car—just as the Aldens do. When readers asked for more adventures, Warner wrote more books—a total of nineteen in all. After her death, other authors have continued to write stories about Henry, Jessie, Violet, and Benny Alden, and today The Boxcar Children® series has more than one hundred books.