title: Sherlock Holmes: The Dark Mysteries
author:  Arthur Conan Doyle 
description: <b>Arthur Conan Doyle</b> (1859-1930) studied medicine at Edinburgh University, but ultimately gave up medicine to pursue a career in writing both fiction and non-fiction. His iconic sleuths, Holmes and Watson, have entertained generations of readers.
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  **THE MIDNIGHT MYSTERY**
  
   **Created by Gertrude Chandler Warner**
  
   **Illustrated by Hodges Soileau**
  
   **ALBERT WHITMAN & Company, Chicago**
  
   **Contents**
  
  CHAPTER
  
   _1\. Benny’s Flashlight Hat_
  
   _2\. Something Is Missing_
  
   _3\. The Mystery Riddle_
  
   _4\. A Curious Phone Call_
  
   _5\. Noises at Midnight_
  
   _6\. The Red Rooster_
  
   _7\. New Clues_
  
   _8\. Henry’s New Invention_
  
   _9\. The Search Goes On_
  
   _10\. The Secret in the Grandfather Clock_
  
   _About the Author_
  
   **CHAPTER 1**
  
   _ **Benny’s Flashlight Hat**_
  
  “It’s too dark in the backseat to play magnetic checkers.” Henry Alden
  grumbled. “I can hardly see any of my black pieces.”
  
  “That’s because I jumped most of them,” his brother, Benny, answered.
  
  Henry frowned. Like the other Aldens, Henry was usually cheerful on family car
  trips. But here he was, fourteen years old and losing at checkers to his six-
  year-old brother. “I’m no match for Benny and his flashlight hat,” he
  admitted.
  
  The two broth