The Westing game
By: by Ellen Raskin.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Dutton
Published: 1978
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 185
Subjects: Inheritance and succession -- Fiction; Apartment houses -- Fiction; Mystery and detective stories; Humorous stories; Chicago (Ill.) -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
First sentence: The sun sets in the west (just about everyone knows that), but Sunset Towers faced east. Strange!
Description: The mysterious death of an eccentric millionaire brings together an unlikely assortment of heirs who must uncover the circumstances of his death before they can claim their inheritance.
Notes: Newbery Medal, 1979
Table of contents: title: Sunset Towers; title: Ghosts or worse; title: Tenants in and out; title: The corpse found; title: Sixteen heirs; title: The Westing will; title: The Westing game; title: The paired heirs; title: Lost and found; title: The long party; title: The meeting; title: The first bomb; title: The second bomb; title: Pairs repaired; title: Fact and gossip; title: The third bomb; title: Some solutions; title: The trackers; title: Odd relatives; title: Confessions; title: The fourth bomb; title: Losers, winners; title: Strange answers; title: Wrong all wrong; title: Westing's wake; title: Turtle's trial; title: A happy fourth; title: And then ...; title: Five years pass; title: The end?