1. By: Coco Louise Giselle
The Westing Game
By: Coco
Louise
Giselle

2. The Characters Turtle Wexler Sam Westing Grace Wexler
Berthe Erica Crow
Jake Wexler
Violet Westing
Angela Wexler
Barney Northrup
Denton Deere
Julian Eastman
Sydelle Pulaski
Windy Windkloppel
Theo Theodorakis
Alice Deere
Chris Theodorakis
Ed Plum
Flora Baumbach
James Shin Hoo
Doug Hoo
Madame Hoo
Sandy McSouthers
Otis Amber
Josie Jo (J.J) Ford

3. What is the Crime/Mystery/Problem?
Sam Westing is dead at the Westing house!
Who is the murderer?

4. What Type of Mystery is Your Novel?
Suspense Fiction
Alfred Hitchcock was a big part of mystery movies!
They all have a motive: 200,000,000 dollars!
This could lead to murder for inheritance.
It describes each character

5. How is Uncertainty and/ or Suspense present your novel ?
No one knows who the murderer is!
New clues keep coming up.
Weird things keep happening (all the bombs).
Stuff keeps getting stolen.
The families stop trusting each other.
No one knows who to trust.

6. What clues are presented in your novel. Why is it considered a clue
What clues are presented in your novel? Why is it considered a clue? What does it make the reader think?
The will
The bombing
The clues given to each pair
The robberies
Sam Westing’s names
People present during the reading of the will were all Sunset Towers residents.
All of the clues we have listed are considered clues because they are all changing the way people look at who murdered Sam Westing. They all also play an important part in changing the story and giving it a twist.
These clues make the reader wonder who killed Sam Westing and who would’ve had the motive to do so.

7. Who are the suspects and why do you consider them as such?
Turtle
Sydelle
We think Turtle may have murdered Mr. Westing because she was in The Westing House right before Sam Westing was proclaimed dead.
We think Sydelle could also be the murderer because she was the only one with a copy of Sam Westings will. She also seemed like a very suspicious person throughout the book especially in the beginning.

8. How is the crime/mystery/problemsolved at the end of your mystery novel
It turns out that Sam Westing wasn’t really murdered… Through out his life, Sam Westing was 5 different persons: Windy Windkloppel, Sam Westing, Sandy McSouthers, Barney Northrup and Julian EastmanTurtle finds his fourth identity with help of a clue, in the will. She decides to keep it a secret.

9. Sources Power Point clip art