书名：The Westing Game 威斯汀游戏 
难度：Lexile蓝思阅读指数750L
适读年龄：8岁以上
作者：Ellen Raskin埃伦·拉斯金
出版社名称：Puffin Books
出版时间：2004
语种：英文 
ISBN：9780142401200
商品尺寸：12.7 x 1.2 x 17.8 cm
包装：平装
页数：192

The Westing Game《威斯汀游戏》荣获1979年纽伯瑞儿童文学奖金奖。
这是一个不同寻常的游戏故事——一份两亿美元的遗产，一桩离奇的谋杀案。阅读此书，不但能够提高读者的推理能力，而且能够给读者宛如看侦探片时那种身临其境的感觉。
友谊、亲情、智慧的全面出击，考验你的观察力，值得一读再读，直到你拼凑起那幅记忆拼图。
媒体推荐：
“这本畅销小说蕴涵着埃伦·拉斯金非凡的创造力和丰富的想象力。此书值得一读再读，每一遍都会有令你欣喜的新发现。” ——《纽约时报》
“阅读此书，不但能够提高读者的推理能力，而且能够给读者宛如看侦探片时那种身临其境的感觉。” ——《书评》
Winner of the Newbery Medal
Winner of the Boston Globe/Horn Book Award
An ALA Notable Book
 
Review
“Great fun for those who enjoy illusion, word play, or sleight of hand.”  — The New York Times Book Review
“A fascinating medley of word games, disguises, multiple aliases, and subterfuges—a demanding but rewarding book.”  — The Horn Book
“A supersharp mystery... confoundingly clever, and very funny.” — Booklist, starred review

The Westing Game《威斯汀游戏》是一个不同寻常的游戏故事——一份两亿美元的遗产，一桩离奇的谋杀案。
在威斯汀的十六个继承人当中，最终只有一个人能够继承他那笔巨额遗产。由于案情的诡异，要找到其中的破案线索并发现真正的凶手可不是一件容易的事。分析书中的角色以及他们之间的关系，顺着威斯汀留下的线索，才有可能侦破此案。一定要头脑清醒，并保持高度警惕，千万别掉进威斯汀设下的陷阱！  

A Newbery Medal Winner
A bizarre chain of events begins when sixteen unlikely people gather for the reading of Samuel W. Westing’s will. And though no one knows why the eccentric, game-loving millionaire has chosen a virtual stranger—and a possible murderer—to inherit his vast fortune, on things for sure: Sam Westing may be dead…but that won’t stop him from playing one last game! 

Introduction
Chapter 1 SUNSET TOWERS
Chapter 2  GHOSTS OR WORSE
Chapter 3  TENANTS IN AND OUT
Chapter 4  THE CORPSE FOUND
Chapter 5  SIXTEEN HEIRS
Chapter 6  THE WESTING WILL
Chapter 7  THE WESTING GAME
Chapter 8  THE PAIRED HEIRS
Chapter 9  LOST AND FOUND
Chapter 10  THE LONG PARTY
Chapter 11  THE MEETING
Chapter 12  THE FIRST BOMB
Chapter 13  THE SECOND BOMB
Chapter 14  PAIRS REPAIRED
Chapter 15  FACT AND GOSSIP
Chapter 16  THE THIRD BOMB
Chapter 17  SOME SOLUTIONS
Chapter 18  THE TRACKERS
Chapter 19  ODD RELATIVES
Chapter 20  CONFESSIONS
Chapter 21  THE FOURTH BOMB
Chapter 22  LOSERS, WINNER
Chapter 23  STRANGE ANSWERS
Chapter 24  WRONG ALL WRONG
Chapter 25  WESTING’S WAKE
Chapter 26  TURTLE’S TRIAL
Chapter 27  A HAPPY FOURTH
Chapter 28  AND THEN . . .
Chapter 29  FIVE YEARS PASS
Chapter 30  THE END?

埃伦·拉斯金（Ellen Raskin），1928年出生于美国威斯康辛州密尔沃基市。拉斯金在读大学期间主修新闻继，继而又转修艺术。毕业后，她曾尝试过一些非艺术性的工作，但最终仍将注意力转移到了她所喜爱的插画和封面设计上。后来，拉斯金逐渐开始独立创作小说和图画书。她先后共有十二部作品获得过图书界的不同奖项，其中《威斯汀游戏》荣获1979年纽伯瑞儿童文学奖金奖。拉斯金的作品想象丰富，富有创造性，一直以来都深受小读者的喜爱。遗憾的是，这位享誉美国文坛的知名儿童文学作家早在1984年就已辞世，享近五十六岁。
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.

INTRODUCTION
Until 1970, Ellen Raskin was considered an illustrator, not an author, although she had written the texts of her notable picture books, such as Nothing Ever Happens on My Block; And It Rained; and Spectacles. And until 1969, I didn’t really know her, although when I was the children’s-book editor at Holt, Rinehart and Winston, she had illustrated Books: A Book to Begin On, by Susan Bartlett, and Come Along!, by Rebecca Caudill—as well as doing for us some of the one thousand book jackets of which she was so proud.
Our friendship really began in the smoking car (like the title character of Moe Q. McGlutch, Ellen smoked too much) of a Pennsylvania Railroad train en route from New York to Philadelphia, where we were both speaking on a panel. I stopped to say hello, and she said, “I’m sitting here alone because I’m so nervous. I hate speaking.” “I hate it, too,” I said, “and I’ve given up smoking.” In the depressed gloom that followed this exchange, the beginning of a bond was formed.
That same year I moved from Holt to E. P. Dutton. Their office was located at Union Square and Seventeenth Street, only a short walk from Ellen’s apartment on Eighth Street, and we got together more often. One day, Ellen confided that she had always wanted to adapt Goblin Market, by Christina Rossetti, as a picture-book text. I thought of the lavishly rich visual details of the poem, and I longed to see how she would illustrate it. ”Would you do the book for me?” I asked. “Yes,” she answered. “Jean [Jean Karl, her editor at Atheneum] doesn’t want it.” Ellen was always candid. So she did do it—her first book for Dutton. One of her exquisitely intricate paintings for that book now hangs on my wall.
We often talked about our lives, and I particularly loved stories about her family and how she and her parents and sister drove around the country during the Great Depression so her father could look for work, an epic safari that took them from Milwaukee to California. “You should write a book about growing up in the Depression,” I told her.