- Fiction, Juvenile fiction, Inheritance and succession, Apartment houses
Sixteen people were invited to the reading of the very strange will of the very rich Samuel W. Westing. They could become millionaires, depending on how they played the game. The not-quite-perfect heirs were paired, and each pair was given $10,000 and a set of clues (no two sets of clues were alike).
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Contemporary, plot-driven, meticulous and cool.
- contemporarynostalgic
- character-ledplot-driven
- rawmeticulous
- cooloverwhelming
- sparerichly built
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- Author
- Ellen Raskin
- First published
- 1978
- Pages
- 192
- Publisher
- Novel Units, Perfection Learning Prebound, Puffin Books
- Editions
- 16
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780380679911
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