Free The Mystery at the Dog Show by Gertrude Chandler Warner

come have your photograph taken with us. After all, if it hadn’t been for you, Sunny wouldn’t have been in the show at all!” Caryn said.
    â€œWait a minute!” cried Benny. “We forgot ! We forgot the surprise!” He ran back to their seats.
    â€œWhat surprise?” Caryn asked.
    â€œYou’ll see,” promised Henry as Benny came running back with the banner under his arm. Quickly, the Aldens unfurled the banner and held it up.
    Caryn laughed with delight. “It’s wonderful. Come on, let’s all have our picture taken with it!”
    As the Aldens joined the Teagues and Sunny, a young man came up to them. “It’s a real scoop,” he said. “What a story! How about an exclusive interview?”
    â€œWell,” said Jessie. Then she stopped. Her eyes widened. “I don’t believe it!” she said. “What are you doing here?”
    â€œI’m a reporter,” said the man.
    The Aldens all stared. It was the same man they had seen at the basset hound’s cage, and lurking in the background when Curly had been shaved, and near the entrance where the cat had first been seen at the show.

    â€œA reporter,” repeated Violet. “But what were you doing at the basset hound’s cage? And when Curly got shaved — you were right there!”
    â€œYes,” said Jessie. “And you were right there when the cat got in, too!”
    The reporter shrugged. “That’s what reporters do. We go where the action is! Besides, I wanted to be anonymous so I could get a real scoop. And I have!”
    The Aldens burst out laughing at their mistake. “Great, great,” said the reporter. He turned to the photographer. “Did you get that shot, Mac?”
    â€œYou were great, Caryn,” said Henry.
    Caryn gave Henry an excited little hug and he blushed as shyly as Violet. “Sunny was great,” she said, “thanks to you and your brother and sisters.”
    â€œAnd Watch!” said Benny. He let go of his end of the banner, and flung his arms around Caryn and then around Sunny. “Watch is the one who really solved the mystery. He proved it was Sunny at Dr. Scott’s. Watch is a champion, too.”
    â€œHe certainly is,” said Caryn. She smiled down at Benny. “Hooray for Watch!”
    â€œHooray for Sunny and for Watch!” cried Benny.

About the Author
    G ERTRUDE C HANDLER W ARNER discovered when she was teaching that many readers who like an exciting story could find no books that were both easy and fun to read. She decided to try to meet this need, and her first book, The Boxcar Children, quickly proved she had succeeded.
    Miss Warner drew on her own experiences to write each mystery. As a child she spent hours watching trains go by on the tracks opposite her family home. She often dreamed about what it would be like to set up housekeeping in a caboose or freight car — the situation the Alden children find themselves in.
    When Miss Warner received requests for more adventures involving Henry, Jessie, Violet, and Benny Alden, she began additional stories. In each, she chose a special setting and introduced unusual or eccentric characters who liked the unpredictable.
    While the mystery element is central to each of Miss Warner’s books, she never thought of them as strictly juvenile mysteries. She liked to stress the Aldens’ independence and resourcefulness and their solid New England devotion to using up and making do. The Aldens go about most of their adventures with as little adult supervision as possible — something else that delights young readers.
    Miss Warner lived in Putnam, Connecticut, until her death in 1979. During her lifetime, she received hundreds of letters from girls and boys telling her how much they liked her books.

The Boxcar Children Mysteries
    T HE B OXCAR C HILDREN
    S URPRISE I SLAND
    T HE Y ELLOW H OUSE M YSTERY
    M YSTERY R ANCH
    M IKE’S M