The Westing Game Characters

Age: 57. Mother died at childbirth, raised by father (deceased). Education: 1 year of high school. Married at 16, divorced at 40. Ex- husband’s name: Windy Windkloppel. Hospital records: problems related to chronic alcoholism. Police record: 3 arrests for vagrancy. Gave up drinking when she took up religion. Started the Good Salvation Soup Kitchen on Skid Row. Works as cleaning woman in Sunset Towers, lives in maid’s apartment on fourth floor. 

• Berthe Erica Crow
• Grace Wexler
• Sydelle Pulaski
• Flora Baumbach 

Age: 45. Podiatrist. Graduated from Marquette. Married 22 years, has two daughters . Bookie.

• Sam Westing 
• Barney Northrup
• Jake Wexler 
• James Shin Hoo

Born with last name Windkloppel. Age: 42. Married to Jake. Claims to be an interior decorator. Spends most of her time in the Chinese restaurant or the beauty parlor. She and Jake  have two daughters. 

• Madame Hoo
• Grace Wexler 
• Angela Wexler 
• Mrs.  Theodorakis 

Age: 20. Engaged to marry D. Denton Deere (also an heir). One year college (high grades). Victim of third bombing. Embroiders a lot. 

• Turtle Wexler 
• Sydelle Pulaski
• Angela Wexler 
• Berthe Erica Crow 

Real name: Tabitha-Ruth Wexler. Age: 13. Junior-high- school student. Plays the stock market. Smart kid, but kicks people. Flora Baumbach calls her Alice. 

• Flora Baumbach
• Grace Wexler 
• Angela Wexler 
• Turtle Wexler 

Age: 17. High- school senior. Works in family coffee shop. Wants to be a writer. Seems lonely; can’t find anyone to play chess with. 

• Chris Theodorakis 
• Theo Theodorakis 
• Doug Hoo 
• Otis Amber 

Age: 15. Younger brother of above. Confined to wheelchair; disease struck about four years ago. Knows a lot about birds. 

• Otis Amber 
• Doug Hoo
• Theo Theodorakis 
• Chris Theodorakis 

Age: 65. Born: Edinburgh, Scotland. Immigrated to Wisconsin, age 3. Education: eighth grade. Jobs: mill worker, union organizer, prizefighter, doorman. Married, six children, two grandchildren. Westing connection: Worked in Westing Paper plant 20 years. Fired by Sam Westing himself for trying to organize the workers. No pension. 

• Barney Northrup
• Otis Amber 
• Sandy McSouthers 
• Jake Wexler 

Age: 25. Graduate of UW Medical School. First-year intern, plastic surgery. Parents live in Racine (not heirs). Westing connection: Engaged to Angela Wexler (see Wexlers), who looks like Sam Westing’s daughter, Violet, who was also engaged to be married, but to a politician not an intern. 

• Otis Amber 
• Dr. Wexler 
• D Denton Deere
• George Theodorakis 

“I played with Sam Westing—chess. Hour after hour I sat staring down at that chessboard. He lectured me, he insulted me, and he won every game.” 

• Turtle Wexler 
• Rosalie Baumbach 
• JJ Ford
• Angela Wexler