Vocabulary
A person who inherits money or property from someone who has passed away.
What is an heir?
This 13 year old girl is know for kicking people and wearing her hair in a long braid.
Who is Turtle Wexler?
This is the amount of money mentioned in Samuel W Westing's will.
What is $200, 000, 000?
This is where Sam Westing's body was found (be specific).
What is a four poster bed in the Westing House?
These are two descriptions of the Sunset Towers.
What is apartment and made of glass?
To quit or leave
What is to forfeit?
This person is obsessed with interior decorating and wants to be considered high class.
Who is Grace Wexler
According to the will, Sam Westing died this way.
What is murdered?
This is how the heirs were chosen to be pairs.
Sunset towers faces this direction, which is unusual for its name.
What is east?
A legal document that states how someone's property or money should be given away.
What is a will?
This person rented apartments in Sunset Towers to the future heirs.
Who is Barney Northrup?
This is what each pair receives to help solve the mystery.
What are clues?
These are two words that have been repeated throughout the book & ended up on a dress.
What is purple waves?
Two restaurants in the Sunset Towers.
What are the Coffee Shop and Shin Hoo's Restaurant?
What is incompetence?
This person is 15, works at the Coffee Shop and loves to tell stories.
This is the name of Sam Westing's paper product company.
What is Westing Paper Products?
Christos Theodorakis saw this type of person going into the Westing House on the night of the murder.
What is a person with a limp?
This person works as the doorman at Sunset Towers.
Who is Alexander (Sandy) McSouthers?
Different, strange or unusual in behavior.
What is eccentric?
This person claims to suffer from a "wasting disease" and can write in shorthand.
Who is Sydelle Pulaski?
What is the riddle Sam provided to help the heirs figure out their clues?
What is, "It is not what you have, it's what you don't have that counts."
Who was Samuel Westing's friend that he got into a car accident with and who witnessed the signing of the will? Also, this person had a specific job.
Who was Sidney Sikes, M.D. (doctor)?
This person delivered the invitations to Sunset Towers and is the "King."
Who is Otis Amber?