title: The Pizza Mystery (The Boxcar Children Mysteries)
author:  Gertrude Chandler Warner 
description: Who is trying very hard to put Piccolo's Pizzeria out of business?
zlib_text: ![](Images/image00057.jpeg)
  
  **The Pizza Mystery**
  
  GERTRUDE CHANDLER WARNER  
  Illustrated by Charles Tang
  
  ALBERT WHITMAN & Company, Chicago
  
   _ **Contents**_
  
  CHAPTER
  
  1 Not Hungry
  
  2 A Face at the Window
  
  3 Jessie’s Pizza Plan
  
  4 The Table in the Corner
  
  5 The Lady in the Red Hat Comes Back
  
  6 The Mystery Orders
  
  7 Everything Goes Dark
  
  8 A Surprise Confession
  
  9 Turned Away
  
  10 Surprises for Everyone
  
  About the Author
  
   **CHAPTER 1**
  
   _ **Not Hungry**_
  
  Four children and one dog were sound asleep in the roomy black car. James
  Alden, the children’s grandfather, took one hand off the steering wheel. He
  patted Benny Alden’s curly head, but the six-year-old boy didn’t stir.
  
  In the rearview mirror, Mr. Alden checked on his three older grandchildren.
  Henry, Jessie, and Violet looked like sleepy puppies in the back seat. The
  Aldens had been on the road for hours. Still, the long drive home to
  Greenfield was only half over.
  
  “It’s not often my copilots are so quiet,” Mr. Alden chuckled t