The Westing Game

 

    The Westing Game is a puzzle mystery book that I have not gotten too far in to, but I know I will love. 
    It starts off in a glass apartment building, with a lakefront view and the beautiful sunset shining in through the windows. If that wasn't good enough, it was very luxurious. Room service, beautiful furniture and space, the type of building you would see all those rich fancy people living in. All for an affordable price. 
    A salesman was selling rooms off to people. The salesman's name was Barney Northrup. He was a good at making sales alright. Although with that, he had to make a few tiny white lies to sell the rooms to people. Special people. People that were carefully selected to live inside this glass apartment building. There was a dressmaker, a secretary, an inventor, a doctor, a judge, a bookie, a burglar, a bomber, and one was a mistake. yes, Barney Northrup has sold a room in the apartment complex to the wrong person. 
    Though, there is something very important about Barney Northrup, something very important indeed. You see, Barney Northrup isn't a real person. There is no Barney Northrup, and there never has been. So, who is he, why was he here, no one knew. 
     All of the specially selected tenants lived in peace in their apartment buildings. they all seemed to get together just fine. They had no real issues with the staff, and they didn't seem to hate each other, though some were picky, some were judgmental, and some were just plain weird. 
    There were a few strange things about Sunset Towers that no one really seemed to care about. One, Sunset Towers face the opposite direction of the Sunset, so instead, the tenants of Sunset Towers get a better view of the sunrise. Two, Sunset Towers don't have any towers, it's just one building with a couple of floors. it's not like it matters, it's just a name, right?
    Sunset Towers has not just a good view of lake Michigan and the sunrise, but also has the best view of the Westing estates 200-million-dollar mansion, which is owned by Mister Samuel Westing. Sam Westing has the American spirit alright. he loved the Fourth of July, and always set off the best fireworks. He was always good spirited and was never negative about really anything. he was orphaned as a child, but that didn't stop him from becoming a very successful businessman. He grew up to own a paper company, and one of the riches people in town. Though no one has seen him for over ten years by the time that the tenants and their families have moved into Sunset Towers. Mister Westing's life all went downhill when his wife divorced him, his daughters drowned on the evening of her wedding day, and when he got sued by an inventor over a paper diaper. Though, on Sam's way to court over this situation over a diaper, he got into a car accident, and after that car accident no one has seen or heard from him. 
    Some of the tenants were making jokes scaring children since Halloween was coming up. They were telling the kids about how Samuel Westing's dead body was now rotting on an oriental rug in his mansion, with bugs crawling in and out of his body. The kids were scared all right, but the tenants were not. They were just joking around. One of those tenants were Turtle, yes that's her name, turtle, or as far as we know of. She is a brave person, and a very stubborn one. you touch the long braid at the back of her head and you're getting a hard kick in the shins by Turtle. 
    Around the same time, one of the Theodorakis siblings were bird watching from the window, then he saw something. the large wooden doors of the Westing house of opening by a dark limping figure. "The Limper" he called it. He couldn't tell if it was man or woman, but they went in, and soon smoke was coming out of the Westing House's chimney. He was a bit scared, yes, but didn't think anything of it.
    Getting back with turtle, she was making a bet with Dough Hoo. For every second she stays in the westing house estate, she gets 2 bucks. They decided to go in the night. She entered the Westing house. She was prepared. She has sandwiches on her, a flashlight, and her mother's silver cross necklace, and other things. She walked up to the second floor and entered the master bedroom, only to find that there was a dead body of a man, and that man was Samuel Westing. Turtle made a shrill scream, that Doug head, of course, but didn't know if Turtle was messing with him or not. turtle ran as fast as she could out of there, tumbling and stumbling, dropping all of the things she brought with her. 
    One she got out, she told Doug everything, who obviously, didn't believe her. Later that night, she read the newspaper, only to discover, someone else found Sam Westing's dead body. She was confused on how the person didn't notice all the stuff that Turtle left behind, but the thing that crept her out the most was the in Mister Westing's obituary, there was no information written down about Samuel's cause of death. She didn't pay it much mind though, still, it sent shivers sunning up and down her spine. 
    Moving through time a little bit, we are set in Sam Westing's grand dining room. Inside were Sam's sixteen heirs of his will, and their family members. There, they all found out about the Westing Game. All the tenants of the apartment complex were in the room. They found out that all the sixteen heirs were related, being Sam's sixteen nieces and nephews. Then they find out that Sam Westing was murdered, but not just by anyone, one of them! The person who finds out who murdered Sam Westing gets to have the Samuel Westing will.
    The tenants were certainly shocked about the news, but now they were playing the Westing Game, and everyone is for themselves.