CHAPTER 19: Odd Relatives

Summary

The stock for Westing Paper Products continues to rise. Turtle is seen by the school nurse: she claimed to suffer from a toothache when she was found with a radio plugged in her ear. Otis Amber warns Crow to be careful, and is convinced that James Hoo is the bomber. Believing Otis, Crow swears vengeance on the person who scarred Angela Wexler's face.

Judge Ford looks over the information of Berthe Erica Crow: she was married to a Windy Windkloppel at 16, divorced at 40, was an alcoholic until she found religion. She now runs a soup kitchen in Skid Row and works as the cleaning woman of Sunset Towers, and has no discernible connection to Westing.

Crow goes up to Shin Hoo's, where Jake Wexler is having lunch and Grace Wexler is sorting sports photographs for.........

Notes

The final clues for Berthe Erica Crow's identity are provided in this chapter, as the Windkloppel name also ties together Sam Westing's actual extended family of the Wexlers. Jake's friendship with Madame Hoo is meant in part to stir jealousy in his wife, to remind her of her responsibility as wife and mother. Readers find out what happened to ........

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