95 pages • 3 hours read
Ellen RaskinThe Westing Game
Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1978A modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, SuperSummary offers high-quality Study Guides with detailed chapter summaries and analysis of major themes, characters, and more. For select classroom titles, we also provide Teaching Guides with discussion and quiz questions to prompt student engagement.
Chapters 26-30Chapter Summaries & Analyses
Chapter 26 Summary: “Turtle’s Trial”
Judge Ford gets Turtle a gavel and forms a court, and Turtle assumes the position of lawyer, looking every bit the part with her chic new haircut. She recounts the time from the first break-in to the Westing house to the present, then puts each heir on the stand to get details of what they may have seen but not made public.
Some of the details are as follows: Chris saw the limper, Dr. Sikes. Otis Amber is, in fact, a private investigator, not an “idiot delivery boy” (163). His clients were Westing, Northrup, and, of course, Judge Ford, who hired him for the Westing game. Westing had hired Otis to watch over Crow after she ran off, and he’s been following her for decades. Of the six people Westing asked him to investigate, the only mistake he made was to give a Sunset Towers letter to Sydelle Pulaski rather than Sybil Pulaski. Sandy (whose identity still remains up for debate) created the stories about the corpse on the Oriental rug to scare the kids on Halloween, and Otis simply joined in on the fun.
Turtle explains the events of Halloween evening and calls Denton to the stand.
