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The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin
4.0

Another pandemic 'it was already on my shelf' re-read.

I read plenty of Nancy Drew as a kid, but this made a distinct impression as being a tight, clever mystery before I had been exposed to Agatha Christie, Clue, and other pop culture staples.

It was way FUNNIER than I remembered (I'm wondering what percentage of those jokes I grasped as a...5th grader, I'm estimating?).

Perhaps I'm selling prior decades short, but I was impressed by how progressive this felt for a book published in 1978. Diverse characters, ambitious women who don't want to be exclusively be defined by their relationships with men, etc.

INTO IT, ELLEN RASKIN!