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The Westing Game Study Guide

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by Ellen Raskin
About 63 pages (19,004 words)
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The Westing Game Study Guide consists of approx. 63 pages of summaries and analysis on The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin. Browse the literature study guide below:

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  About the Author

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  Chapter Summaries & Analysis

In the first chapter, we learn that Sunset Towers, a glittery, "glassy" apartment building, faces east and has no towers. It stands on the Lake Michigan shore and is five-stories high; the building is empty. On the Fourth of July, a sixty-two-year-old delivery boy rides around town and slips letters under the doors of the chosen tenants-to-be. The letters are signed Barney Northrup, but there is no such person. (read more)
      Sunset Towers: Chapter 1
      Ghosts or Worse: Chapter 2
      Tenants In and Out: Chapter 3
      The Corpse Found: Chapter 4
      Sixteen Heirs: Chapter 5
      The Westing Will: Chapter 6
      The Westing Game: Chapter 7
      The Paired Heirs: Chapter 8
      Lost and Found: Chapter 9
      The Long Party: Chapter 10
      The Meeting: Chapter 11
      The First Bomb: Chapter 12
      The Second Bomb: Chapter 13
      Pairs Repaired: Chapter 14
      Fact and Gossip: Chapter 15
      The Third Bomb: Chapter 16
      Some Solutions: Chapter 17
      The Trackers: Chapter 18
      Odd Relatives: Chapter 19
      Confessions: Chapter 20
      The Fourth Bomb: Chapter 21
      Losers, Winners: Chapter 22
      Strange Answers: Chapter 23
      Wrong All Wrong: Chapter 24
      Westing's Wake: Chapter 25
      Turtle's Trial: Chapter 26
      A Happy Fourth: Chapter 27
      And Then . . .: Chapter 28
      Five Years Pass: Chapter 29
      The End?: Chapter 30

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