The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin
Copyright 1978 Newbery Award Medal Winner
| Character | Character description |
| Turtle Wexler | a 13 year old girl |
| Grace Wexler | mother of Turtle and Angela |
| Jake Wexler | husband of Grace and foot doctor |
| Angela Wexler | daughter of Grace and fiance of Dentin |
| Doug Hoo | a track star and son of Mr... Hoo |
| Otis Amber | delivery boy |
| Denton Deere | intern at local hospital |
| Sydelle Pulaski | secretary ( not a heir is at Sunset Towers by mistake) |
| Bertha Erica Crow | soup kitchen organizer ( former wife of Westing gets inheritance) |
| Theo Theodorakis | 17 year old boy son of coffee shop owner |
| Chris Theodorakis | son of coffee shop owner disease struck and wheelchair bound |
| Sam Westing | rich owner of a paper company |
| Sandy McSouthers | door man at Sunset Towers |
| Mr.Hoo | owner of restaurant atop sunset towers |
The sixteen heirs of Sam Westing are moved to Sunset Towers. They are invited to the Westing mansion to start the Westing game. The goal is to find out witch heir is Sam Westings murder.They each get confusing clues. At the end of the story Turtle finds out that Westing was never murdered and changed personalities. It turned out that Westing was playing the role of Sandy Mcsouthers. In the end Turtle figures out the mystery and Crow gets most of the money. ((take the quiz) (learn about other great scary stories) (Back to Good Book Nook)