Gertrude Chandler Warner

The Mystery at Peacock Hall Gertrude Chandler Warner

Jacket Description/Flap: Cousin Althea may lose her house in an auction. Can the Boxcar Children help her?Brief Description: At the request of their distant relative Althea, the Boxcar Children arrive at her old Virginia mansion and investigate the mysterious incidents happening there. Publisher Marketing: Determined to help their cousin Althea keep her beautiful home, Peacock Hall, the Alden children go in search of the mysterious treasure rumored to be hidden there--and find more mysteries to solve!

Contributor Bio:  Warner, Gertrude Chandler Gertrude Chandler Warner was born in 1890 in Putnam, Connecticut, where she taught school and wrote The Boxcar Children because she had often imagined how delightful it would be to live in a caboose or freight car. Encouraged by its success, she went on to write eighteen more stories about the Alden Children.