| Authors: |
Ellen Raskin
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| Material type: |
Books |
| Language: |
English |
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| Year: |
2003 |
| ISBN: |
0525471375 |
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5 out of 5: They loved it |
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Worth finishing by a.nonymous |
| At first I found the characters to be mostly not very sympathetic. The end, however, was very satisfying. It made me glad I stuck with it and finished the book. |
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Loved it by mistwalker |
| The Westing Game is about the extremely eccentric Sam Westing, who dies leaving an enigmatic will challenging his sixteen heirs to discover his murderer and win 200 million dollars. The heirs are paired up, given a set of clues, and told "It's not what you have, it's what you don't have that counts." Thus begins the journey to discover the answer to Westing's riddle. But none of the clues make any sense, and time is running out before the killer will strike again. Can the heirs work together to solve the ultimate puzzle, uncover secrets, and cast away disguises? And who will be the winner of the Westing Game? If you don't read this book, you will regret it. If you do read it, you will read it again and again. ~mistwalker~ |
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