title: The Ice Cream Mystery (The Boxcar Children Mysteries)
author:  Gertrude Chandler Warner 
description: Someone is trying to shut down the Greenfield Ice Cream Barn.
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  **The Ice Cream Mystery**
  
   **Created by Gertrude Chandler Warner**
  
   **Illustrated by Hodges Soileau**
  
   **ALBERT WHITMAN & Company, Chicago**
  
   **Contents**
  
  CHAPTER
  
  1\. A Horse Named Butterscotch
  
  2\. A Melted Ice Cream Mess
  
  3\. Hard Work and Free Ice Cream
  
  4\. Who Took the Posters?
  
  5\. Is This Your Horse?
  
  6\. Nasty Notes and Sticky Clues
  
  7\. The Sugar Shop
  
  8\. Who Did It?
  
  9\. A Clue and a Trap
  
  10\. The Mystery Ice Cream
  
  About the Author
  
   **CHAPTER 1**
  
   _ **A Horse Named Butterscotch**_
  
  “Benny? Benny, where are you?” called ten-year-old Violet from the back door
  of the big white house.
  
  No one answered.
  
  “Benny?” Violet called again.
  
  “Haven’t you found him yet?” asked her sister, Jessie. “Henry’s waiting.”
  
  Henry was fourteen and the oldest of the four Alden children. Benny, six, was
  the youngest.
  
  “He and Watch were playing ball,” Violet said. “But I don’t see them now.”
  
  “I know how to get Benny’s attention. Watch this!” said Jessie, taki