The Westing Game by: Ellen Raskin (5)

After Barney Northrup selects several tenants to live at Sunset Towers, next to Westing’s house, things start to get weird. When thirteen year old Turtle Wexler is dared to go into the Westing house on Halloween, she finds a dead body, it must be Westing! The next morning, heirs of Sam Westing (most being from sunset towers; 3 are not) are all invited to hear his will. They find out they are all involved in a dangerous game to find the murderer of Sam Westing and are put in pairs. Each pair gets a set of clues. Plus, the murderer is one of the heirs. The winner (the pair who figures out the murderer) wins Westing’s estate. Throughout the game people find out who the other heirs really are. One is a bomber, another, a thief, and one, a bookie.