Characters
The shin-kicking, smart, brave girl who becomes the main solver of the Westing mystery.
Who is Turtle Wexler?
The name of the apartment building where all the heirs live.
What is Sunset Towers?
This event brings all the heirs together at the beginning of the story.
What is the reading of Sam Westing’s will.
The object that contains the clues given to each pair of heirs.
What are envelopes with clue slips?
The theme shown through characters hiding their true identities.
What is appearances can be deceiving.
The judge who once knew Sam Westing and feels she owes him a debt.
Who is Judge J.J. Ford?
The unusual feature Sunset Towers has based on its name.
What is it faces east, not west?
The goal Westing gives the heirs in his will.
What is to solve who “killed” Sam Westing?
The famous song the clues secretly points to.
What is “America the Beautiful”?
The theme shown through unlikely partners learning to cooperate.
What is teamwork and cooperation?
The doorman at Sunset Towers who is later revealed to be one of Westing’s identities.
Who is Sandy McSouthers?
This is where Sam Westing’s body was first discovered.
Where is the Westing mansion?
Turtle enters the Westing mansion on Halloween night because she did this.
What is she accepted a bet?
This is why the clues seem incomplete or confusing at first.
What is each pair receives only part of the clue?
The personal quality Westing wanted to reward in the true heir.
What is independent thinking?
Paired with Turtle during the Westing Game.
Who is Flora Baumbach?
The major holiday that is approaching during the events of the book.
What is the Fourth of July?
The surprising fact is revealed about Sam Westing at the end of the book.
What is he is alive and using multiple identities?
The essential item Turtle hides to protect the final answer.
What is the missing will?
The message the structure of the game teaches about solving problems.
What is usng logic and persistence?
This character turns out to be the true heir who understands all four Westing identities.
Who isTurtle Wexler?
The natural event that isolates Sunset Towers early in the story.
What is a blizzard?
The realization Turtle makes about Westing’s four identities?
What is they are all the same person?
The real purpose of the clues in the Westing Game.
What is to make heirs work together and to test their character?
Turtle’s ultimate success reveals this about her character.
What is she is intelligent, honest, and determined?