Beginning on a stormy afternoon, the Alden children take a shortcut through the Greenfield Cemetery.  A shadowy figure appears briefly and the children run to the local café.  They join Miss Wolfson who tells them about the legend of the LaFonte’s.  Madame LaFonte had a dress shop and was a benefactor to families with ailing children and to the hospital.  After her death,  according to legend, it is good luck to leave gifts at the cemetery once a year.  The Boxcar children decide to solve this mystery of the ghost, Madame LaFonte, and the gifts required to avoid bad luck.  Using local legend, newspaper reports, and interviews with friends of the historical society, the Aldens bravely push toward the truth.  What is the truth, what is just superstition?  Gertrude Chandler Warner wrote 19 stories before her death in 1979.  This story follows her formula.  The characters are not as developed as many of those in popular literature.  This is #133 in a series that has touched many readers.  Nothing new, but a comfortable new adventure in a reliable series.