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I remember the will said, 'May God thy gold refine.' That must be from the Bible.Shakespeare, Turtle said. All quotations were either from the Bible or Shakespeare.

Ellen Raskin

I remember the will said, 'May God thy gold refine.' That must be from the Bible.Shakespeare, Turtle said. All quotations were either from the Bible or Shakespeare.

Tags: funny, meta, shakespeare

Who were these people, these specially selected tenants? They were mothers and fathers and children. A dressmaker, a secretary, an inventor, a doctor, a judge. And, oh yes, one was a bookie, one was a...

Ellen Raskin

Who were these people, these specially selected tenants? They were mothers and fathers and children. A dressmaker, a secretary, an inventor, a doctor, a judge. And, oh yes, one was a bookie, one was a...

Tags: identity, the westing game

About Author
Ellen Raskin (March 13, 1928 – August 8, 1984) was an American children's writer and illustrator. She won the 1979 Newbery Medal for The Westing Game, a mystery novel, and another children's mystery, Figgs & Phantoms, was a Newbery Honor Book in 1975.
In 2012 The Westing Game was ranked number nine all-time among children's novels in a survey published by School Library Journal, a monthly with a primarily-U.S. audience.

Read it out loud, dear, Grace ordered, as Angela opened the card tied to the yellow-ribboned box. To the bride-to-be in the kitchen stuck, An asparagus cooker and lots of luck. from Cookie Barfspringe...

Ellen Raskin

Read it out loud, dear, Grace ordered, as Angela opened the card tied to the yellow-ribboned box. To the bride-to-be in the kitchen stuck, An asparagus cooker and lots of luck. from Cookie Barfspringe...

Your trouble comes from years of wearing the wrong kind of shoes. - Jake Wexler

Ellen Raskin

Your trouble comes from years of wearing the wrong kind of shoes. - Jake Wexler

Hello, Jake, I’m so glad you could come, Sunny (as Madame Hoo was now called) said, shaking the hand of the chairman of the State Gambling Commission.

Ellen Raskin

Hello, Jake, I’m so glad you could come, Sunny (as Madame Hoo was now called) said, shaking the hand of the chairman of the State Gambling Commission.

Today I have gathered together my nearest and dearest, my sixteen nieces and nephews (Sit down, Grace Windsor Wexler!) to view the body of your Uncle Sam for the last time. Tomorrow its ashes will be...

Ellen Raskin

Today I have gathered together my nearest and dearest, my sixteen nieces and nephews (Sit down, Grace Windsor Wexler!) to view the body of your Uncle Sam for the last time. Tomorrow its ashes will be...

Tags: ellen raskin, murder, mysteries, mystery, sam westing, samuel westing, the westing game, will

Angela Wexler,

Ellen Raskin

Angela Wexler,

Senseless, you say? Death is senseless yet makes way for the living. Life, too, is senseless unless you know who you are, what you want, and which way the wind blows.

Ellen Raskin

Senseless, you say? Death is senseless yet makes way for the living. Life, too, is senseless unless you know who you are, what you want, and which way the wind blows.

Tags: life

Sandy fidgeted with his pen. There’s something I didn’t write down. Maybe I shouldn’t tell you, you being a judge and all, but, well, Jake Wexler… he’s a bookie.No, he should not have told her. A smal...

Ellen Raskin

Sandy fidgeted with his pen. There’s something I didn’t write down. Maybe I shouldn’t tell you, you being a judge and all, but, well, Jake Wexler… he’s a bookie.No, he should not have told her. A smal...

Sunset Towers faced east and had no towers.

Ellen Raskin

Sunset Towers faced east and had no towers.

Life, too, is senseless unless you know who you are, what you want, and which way the wind blows.

Ellen Raskin

Life, too, is senseless unless you know who you are, what you want, and which way the wind blows.

Hi Sandy, I won!

Ellen Raskin

Hi Sandy, I won!

I wanted to be a doctor, but, well, we don’t have as much money as my mother pretends. Dad said he could manage if that’s what I really wanted, but my mother said it was too difficult for a woman to g...

Ellen Raskin

I wanted to be a doctor, but, well, we don’t have as much money as my mother pretends. Dad said he could manage if that’s what I really wanted, but my mother said it was too difficult for a woman to g...

She could have been an interior decorator, a good one, too, if it wasn’t for the pressing demands of so on and so forth.

Ellen Raskin

She could have been an interior decorator, a good one, too, if it wasn’t for the pressing demands of so on and so forth.

The sun sets in the west (just about everyone knows that), but Sunset Towers faced east. Strange!

Ellen Raskin

The sun sets in the west (just about everyone knows that), but Sunset Towers faced east. Strange!

HOO JAMES SHIN HOO. Born: James Hoo in Chicago. Age: 50. Added Shin to his name when he went into the restaurant business because it sounded more Chinese. First wife died of cancer five years ago. Mar...

Ellen Raskin

HOO JAMES SHIN HOO. Born: James Hoo in Chicago. Age: 50. Added Shin to his name when he went into the restaurant business because it sounded more Chinese. First wife died of cancer five years ago. Mar...

Grace sat down where the chair wasn't.

Ellen Raskin

Grace sat down where the chair wasn't.

Tags: humor

The poor are crazy, the rich just eccentric. - James Shin Hoo

Ellen Raskin

The poor are crazy, the rich just eccentric. - James Shin Hoo

Can you stand on your legs? Sydelle Pulaski asked. Can you walk at all?People never asked Chris those questions; they whispered them to his parents behind his back. N-n-no. Why?What better disguise fo...

Ellen Raskin

Can you stand on your legs? Sydelle Pulaski asked. Can you walk at all?People never asked Chris those questions; they whispered them to his parents behind his back. N-n-no. Why?What better disguise fo...

Tags: friendship

Daughter of the servants. Gee, you must have been lonely, Judge, having nobody to play with. I played with Sam Westing—chess. Hour after hour I sat staring down at that chessboard. He lectured me, he...

Ellen Raskin

Daughter of the servants. Gee, you must have been lonely, Judge, having nobody to play with. I played with Sam Westing—chess. Hour after hour I sat staring down at that chessboard. He lectured me, he...