It was fun to read The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin, it is very curious and makes you stop and think a lot. The author really tells a good story that is very confusing at times, but makes you want to keep reading. In The Westing Game, an group of people are brought to an apartment house, called sunset towers, then told they are heirs to the Westing Estate, but must solve the mystery of his murder first, by working in pairs and putting together an odd assortment of clues. The story is set in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and is based in around modern to not long-ago past.

One of my favorite parts of the book is when Turtle goes into the Westing Manor and discovers the dead corpse of Samuel Westing. Turtle sees some smoke from the Westing manor and wants to go investigate. She goes in and...