The westing game notes

A mysterious realtor arranges for a specific group of people to become tenants in an apartment building called Sunset Towers that overlooks the abandoned mansion of Samuel Westing. A diverse group of unconnected people, both families and individuals, live together in at the Sunset Towers until a young girl, Turtle, discovers the body of Sam Westing after entering the Westing mansion on a dare.

After his body is discovered, the tenants learn that each of them is considered heirs to the Westing fortune and are invited to the mansion to hear the will. Sam Westing's will claims that one of them is the murderer and divides them up into pairs and gives them each clues to solve the mystery of who killed him. The winner will receive million dollars. This page shows the author playing around with different title variants. It also shows an early sketch for the jacket art. Since there are fireworks in the book, Raskin did research to make sure she had the right colors and accurate descriptions of different types of fireworks.

One of the characters hires a detective to seek on information on the other heirs so Raskin needed to have background information about where a detective would look for information.

Crow and Otis get married, and all the other tenants achieve their dreams. Turtle and Sandy remain friends for many years, and she sits with him at his deathbed. By then she has married Theo and become a successful, rich businesswoman. SparkTeach Teacher's Handbook. Summary Plot Overview Chapter Summaries. Please wait while we process your payment. Sign up and get instant access to save the page as your favorite.

Summary Plot Overview. Next section Chapter Summaries. Take a Study Break. He tells Doug their clues point to ammonium nitrate, which can be used to make explosives. Doug isn't interested; he knows that if he wins his upcoming track meet, he will get an athletic scholarship.

Still, he agrees to spy on Otis after school and follows him around town and back to Sunset Towers. Then Otis gives Doug a letter from Plum; the heirs must gather on Saturday night. Sandy and Judge Ford meet to review their notes. They have learned nothing new about Otis and Dr. Deere, but Sydelle, the fifty-year-old secretary, has no Westing connection.

In the hospital, Angela tells Dr. Deere that they will have to postpone the wedding. Turtle kicks Dr. Deere in the shin. Chris says Flora shared a clue, but Dr. Deere wants to take Chris to the hospital to see a neurologist about a new medicine. The stock market finally turns upward for Turtle and Flora. Otis believes the bomber is Mr. She visits Mr. Judge Ford and Sandy meet to review their list.

The fifty-seven-year-old Crow is divorced from a man named Windkloppel and started a soup kitchen, but her Westing connection remains unknown. Next, they discuss the Wexler family. At the hospital, Chris, who is undergoing tests, visits Angela to give her an envelope he found in his bathrobe pocket that he mistakenly believes must be from Theo.

Turtle and Flora sell their stock for a profit, Doug follows Otis, and Theo goes to the hospital after blowing up the science lab while experimenting with chemical fertilizers. Theodorakis tells Judge Ford about his relationship with Violet. Feeling trapped, Violet committed suicide. Theo follows Otis to the soup kitchen to spy. Judge Ford and Sandy review their own information. Sandy lost his pension when Westing fired him.

Judge Ford grew up in the Westing household, where her parents worked. Westing paid for her education, which remains an unpaid debt. Turtle posts a notice confessing to setting the bombs. Grace feels terrible anger toward Turtle for injuring Angela, but Jake comforts Grace. When they return to their apartment, they find that Angela has returned from the hospital, but they pay her little attention. Elsewhere, Judge Ford feels nervous that someone is in danger and thinks that Westing might be in attendance that night.

Then Dr. She looks at photos and clippings and realizes that Westing suffered facial injuries in the car accident, so he likely has a different face now from plastic surgery.

Meanwhile, Crow and Otis head to the house. The heirs gather in the Westing game room with the lawyer, Ed Plum. Plum begins to read from the will. He welcomes the heirs and asks each to give one answer. Deere answer that Westing was a good man. Deere telling her that Otis has not had plastic surgery and thus could not be Westing. Grace and Mr. Crow gets snacks. Deere tells Judge Ford that no one has had plastic surgery but Sandy could have used some.

Theo, who has resumed the chess game, believes he has won. Plum opens the next envelope, which directs them to the library. Then Plum leaves the room and locks them in. Theo suggests they share their clues and the inheritance. Suddenly, Sandy grabs his throat and falls to the floor. Plum enters with the sheriff and Dr.

Sikes, who announces that Sandy is dead. The heirs return to the game room, where Plum reads one more document. Westing, born Windkloppel, says they only have five minutes to win the game.

No one wants to name Crow as the murderer, but Judge Ford recalls that Crow gave Sandy a drink before he died. Suddenly, Crow says her own name and that she will split her inheritance between Angela and the soup kitchen. They debate whether Crow is the murderer, with Theo pointing out that if she is not, then the murderer is one of them. Revelations come out about Sandy; he had a bruise on his shin, but Turtle says the only person she kicked that day was Barney Northrup.

Turtle reflects on what people are saying about Sandy: He had a sore shin, he beat Theo at chess, he wanted her to win, and he winked at her before he died. She asks Angela to see a copy of the will and reads it, noticing the name Windkloppel. Judge Ford explains that Crow was married to Westing when he went by that name.