From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler/The Westing Game

This edition pairs two puzzle-driven novels for younger readers. In the first, a twelve-year-old runs away from home to New York with her younger brother and hides in a famous museum, where the two set out to solve the mystery of a marble statue.

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The second opens with the death of an eccentric millionaire, whose will gathers a group of strangers and sets them a puzzle. They must work together and against one another to find out what the will really means and who among them will come out ahead.

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