An edition of The Westing Game (1978)

The Westing game

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An edition of The Westing Game (1978)

The Westing game

1st ed.

by

  • ★★★ ★ 3.83 ·
  • 30 Ratings
  • 193 Want to read
  • 20 Currently reading
  • 48 Have read

The mysterious death of an eccentric millionaire brings together an unlikely assortment of heirs who must uncover the circumstances of his death before they can claim their inheritance.

Publish Date
Publisher
Dutton
Language
English
Pages
185

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Subjects
Fiction, Juvenile fiction, Inheritance and succession, Apartment houses, Humorous stories, Mystery and detective stories, Detective and mystery stories, Newbery Medal, Fiction in English, Mystery, Millionaires, Murder, Mystery fiction, Heirs
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Chicago (Ill.)

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The Westing game
2005, Speak
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The Westing game
2003, Dutton Children's Books
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The Westing game
1992, Puffin Books
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The Westing game
1988, ABC-CLIO
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The Westing Game: A Puzzle Mystery (An Avon Flare Book)
June 1984, Avon Books (P)
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The Westing game
1978, Dutton
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The Westing game
1978, Scholastic
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First Sentence

"The sun sets in the west (just about everyone knows that), but Sunset Towers faced east. Strange!"

Table of Contents

Sunset Towers
Ghosts or worse
Tenants in and out
The corpse found
Sixteen heirs
The Westing will
The Westing game
The paired heirs
Lost and found
The long party
The meeting
The first bomb
The second bomb
Pairs repaired
Fact and gossip
The third bomb
Some solutions
The trackers
Odd relatives
Confessions
The fourth bomb
Losers, winners
Strange answers
Wrong all wrong
Westing's wake
Turtle's trial
A happy fourth
And then ...
Five years pass
The end?

Edition Notes

Newbery Medal, 1979

Published in
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Genre
Fiction.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
[Fic]
Library of Congress
PZ7.R1817 We 1978, PZ7.R1817

The Physical Object

Pagination
185 p. ;
Number of pages
185

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL4550282M
Internet Archive
westinggame00elle
ISBN 10
0525423206
LCCN
77018866
OCLC/WorldCat
3543398
Library Thing
63095
Goodreads
518856

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January 19, 2024 Edited by bicolino34 Bulk tagging works
January 7, 2024 Edited by Bernat Fortet Add subjects: lexile:750, lexile_range:701-800, age:min:9, age:max:undefined, grade:min:5, grade:max:7
January 3, 2024 Edited by Bernat Fortet Add Juvenile subject
January 3, 2024 Edited by Bernat Fortet Add Juvenile subject
October 28, 2016 Edited by Jessamyn West Corrected title case