Gertrude Chandler Warner

The Mystery of the Purple Pool - The Boxcar Children Mysteries Gertrude Chandler Warner

Brief Description: While staying at a hotel in New York City, the Aldens investigate a series of annoying pranks plaguing the management and guests. Brief Description: While staying at a hotel in New York City, the Aldens investigate a series of annoying pranks plaguing the management and guests. Jacket Description/Flap: The children investigate some mysterious happenings in their hotel in New York City.

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.