The Westing Game is a juvenile mystery, winner of the Newbery Award. The premise is that 16 people are lured to live in or work in (or both) Sunset Towers, an apartment building owned by Samuel Westing on the Lake Michigan shore. A few months later, Westing, from the nearby Westing estate dies and his attorney assembles the 16 people at the Westing estate, calling them beneficiaries to his will. The estate is worth 200 million dollars. A letter read by his attorney indicates that Westing was murdered and that Westing knows who killed him. The beneficiaries will be paired up and given clues to determine which of them killed Westing. The winner of the "game" will receive the 200 million dollars. Some of the characters knew Westing and some did not. They are from different walks of life and different ages. The youngest, Turtle, is only twelve.This is the kind of book where I like to write down all the people's names and clues to see if I can figure out whodunnit. The clues come in fast, not always so obvious, and the people are not always who we think they are. Lots of fun and surprises.
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