A review by octavia_cade
The Mystery at the Alamo by Gertrude Chandler Warner

mysterious fast-paced

3.0

The kids are off to the Alamo, where - quite by chance - they get roles as extras in a movie about the historical events that happened there. They appear to be the only extras and, not gonna lie, I was pretty certain that Grandpa Alden had cooked up the whole experience for them, but apparently not. It's a quick, easy read, as all the Boxcar books are, but this one does have a little more misdirection in it than some of the others, which was interesting. There were multiple options for who the culprit might be, although largely due to the fact that many of the adults involved in making the film were consistently more childish than the actual kids!