Gertrude Chandler Warner

The Mystery of the Stolen Sword Gertrude Chandler Warner

Jacket Description/Flap: Benny is determined to find the ghost that haunts Seymour Curtis' apple orchard, but a more earthly crime becomes important. Marc Notes: ; The Alden children visit a family friend at his apple orchard which is rumored to be haunted, but instead of a ghost they find that some of the families' valuable antiques are being stolen.. Publisher Marketing: Henry, Jessie, Violet, and Benny used to live alone in a boxcar. Now they have a home with their grandfather, and they are visiting a real apple orchard.

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.