Ellen Rankin’s novel, The Westing...
Ellen Rankin’s novel, The Westing Game, tells the story of sixteen people brought together in a bizarre contest for the estate of Samuel Westing, a deceased, wealthy man. These sixteen people must learn to work with each other, despite the abundance of dead-end leads, red herrings, and general mayhem. The answer to Westing’s labyrinthine riddle is clever, well-hidden, and, most of all, surprising. The inheritance Paul talks about today is nothing like the Westing inheritance. Our inheritance does not require us to win any games; it does not require extreme talent, skill, or cleverness.
