THE WESTING GAME

Raskin, Ellen

ISBN 10: 0525471375 / ISBN 13: 9780525471370

Published by Dutton, NY, 2003

About this Item

1979 NEWBERY MEDAL. 1st ed, 2nd prt Fine copy, orange boards, no DJ. "2" in number line. Attractive early prt.

Seller Inventory # 028686

Bibliographic Details

• Title: THE WESTING GAME
• Publisher: Dutton, NY
• Publication Date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0525471375
• ISBN 13: 9780525471370
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: Hawkes, Kevin (DJ)
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Printing: 2nd Printing
• Condition: Near Fine

About this title

Synopsis

For twenty-five years, Ellen Raskin's Newbery Medal-winning The Westing Game has been an enduring favorite and is now being reissued with a brand-new jacket by Kevin Hawkes and an introduction by Ann Durell.

This highly inventive mystery involves sixteen people who are invited to the reading of Samuel W. Westing's will. They could become millionaires, depending on how they play the tricky and dangerous Westing game, which involves blizzards, burglaries, and bombings. Ellen Raskin has entangled a remarkable cast of characters in a puzzle-knotted, word-twisting plot filled with humor, intrigue, and suspense.

About the Author

Ellen Raskin was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and grew up during the Great Depression. She was the author of several novels, including the Newbery Medal-winning The Westing Game, the Newbery Honor-winning Figgs & Phantoms, The Tattooed Potato and other clues, and The Mysterious Disappearance of Leon (I Mean Noel). She also wrote and illustrated many picture books and was an accomplished graphic artist. She designed dust jackets for dozens of books, including the first edition of Madeleine L’Engle’s classic A Wrinkle in Time. Ms. Raskin died at the age of fifty-six on August 8, 1984, in New York City.