The elegant Sunset Towers neither faces the sunset nor has any towers. Raskin’s whodunit begins with the delivery of six letters of invitation to both individuals and families to take up residency in Sunset Towers, a brand new, five-story, luxury apartment construction chiefly made of glass that offers stunning views of Lake Michigan and the Wisconsin shoreline.
Raskin includes some of her personal loves such as playing the stock market, the game of chess, and celebrating her hometown of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. One of the particularly relevant features of this classic work of juvenile fiction is the presence of four highly gifted teens among the cast of unlikely game players. It is a puzzle, a word mystifier, a game to be played, and a work of fiction filled with delightfully eccentric characters of multiple disguises, aliases, and even at least one case of mistaken identity. The Westing Game is much more than a mystery novel.
Originally published in 1978, Ellen Raskin’s final book is a novel of delight that should be introduced to each new generation of readers. The Westing Game is one of the all-time favorite Newbery Medal-winning books.
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