![]() In the will it states that one of his heirs has taken his life. ![]() The will is structured like a puzzle, with the 16 heirs challenged to find the solution. After Sam Westing dies, at the beginning of the book, it emerges that most of the tenants are named as heirs in Westing's will. ![]() He was very patriotic and never smoked, drank, or gambled.Īs the story opens, Barney Northrup is selling apartments to a carefully selected group of tenants. (Despite its name, Sunset Towers faces east – into the sunrise.) Sam Westing was a wealthy businessman who made his fortune in paper products. Sunset Towers is a new apartment building on Lake Michigan, north of Milwaukee and just down the shore from the mansion owned by reclusive self-made millionaire Samuel W. ![]() It has been adapted as the 1997 feature film Get a Clue (also distributed as The Westing Game). The Westing Game was ranked number nine all-time among children's novels in a survey published by School Library Journal in 2012. It won the Newbery Medal recognizing the year's most distinguished contribution to American children's literature. The Westing Game is a mystery book written by Ellen Raskin and published by Dutton on May 1, 1978. ![]()
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