The Westing Game (Puffin Modern Classics)
Mr. Westing
Ellen Raskin • The Westing Game (Puffin Modern Classics)
Playful, loves tricks
window. She stared longingly into the boundless gray distance as if far, far on the other side of Lake Michigan lay China.
Ellen Raskin • The Westing Game (Puffin Modern Classics)
Misses China
His head jerked, his body coiled, lashed by violent spasms.
Ellen Raskin • The Westing Game (Puffin Modern Classics)
Has some illness that makes him have spasms
one was a bookie, one was a burglar, one was a bomber, and one was a mistake. Barney Northrup had rented one of the apartments to the wrong person.
Ellen Raskin • The Westing Game (Puffin Modern Classics)
Some morally challenged people and the mistake could either mean that it's the murderer or not the person that he was meant to sell the apartment too
There was no mention of how the body was found.
Ellen Raskin • The Westing Game (Puffin Modern Classics)
Suspicous
The delivery boy added a high-pitched he-he-he to the gruesome details.
Ellen Raskin • The Westing Game (Puffin Modern Classics)
Likes to exaggerate
Mrs. Wexler leaped up, hand ready to strike;
Ellen Raskin • The Westing Game (Puffin Modern Classics)
Abusive
“Oh, it’s you.” Mrs. Wexler always seemed surprised to see her other daughter, so unlike golden-haired, angel-faced Angela.
Ellen Raskin • The Westing Game (Puffin Modern Classics)
Favortism towards Angela
Grace had convinced herself that she was the rightful heir.
Ellen Raskin • The Westing Game (Puffin Modern Classics)
High and mighty, self absorbed, confident