Not long after that, Westing and his friend, the county coroner Dr. Turtle also learns about the tragedies in WestingвЂ™s past: many years ago, his daughter Violet died the night before her wedding. A patriot and teetotaler, Westing made his corporation vast and successful while also dismantling his employeesвЂ™ attempts to organize a union. Turtle is excited when she reads that Sam Westing, the son of immigrants turned founder of the lucrative Westing Paper Products Corporation, is worth over $200 million. The next morning, Turtle finds that WestingвЂ™s death has made headlines. Minutes later, she runs out screaming-she has seen the dead body of Sam Westing. That night, Turtle meets Doug at the Westing estate: she is determined to win $2 for every minute she spends inside the manor. Ford and Sydelle Pulaski, two other tenants of Sunset Towers, return home and notice the smoke, too. TurtleвЂ™s father, Jake Wexler, is a podiatrist-as he visits with a patient, Berthe Erica Crow, the buildingвЂ™s religious cleaning woman, Crow spots the smoke and becomes alarmed. The other tenants notice the smoke, too-TheoвЂ™s brother Chris, who is suffering from a neurological disorder and uses a wheelchair, spies the smoke through his birdwatching binoculars, and TurtleвЂ™s engaged-to-be-married older sister, Angela Wexler, spots the smoke during a fitting with her wedding dress maker, Flora Baumbach. They rib the teens who live in the building- Theo Theodorakis, Doug Hoo, and Turtle Wexler-by telling them ghost stories about how old man Westing has been rotting away inside for years. On Halloween, Sandy McSouthers, the doorman at Sunset Towers, and Otis Amber, the delivery boy, spot smoke coming from the Westing manorвЂ™s chimney. A вЂњNO TRESPASSINGвЂќ sign and a wire fence have been erected on the north side of the buildingвЂ™s property-beyond them lies the mysterious Westing estate. Hidden among them are a bookie, a burglar, a bomber, a thief, and a mistake. Within days, Northrup has rented all of the homes in Sunset Towers, as well as both restaurant spaces and a medical office in the lobby. The letters invite their recipients to move into Sunset Towers, a new apartment building on the lake which, despite its name, faces east. On the Fourth of July, a 62-year-old delivery boy rides around a town on the edge of Lake Michigan delivering letters signed by a man named Barney Northrup-a man who does not exist.

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