Confessions: Chapter 20 Summary

On Friday, Turtle skips school and takes Flora to the broker's office. Westing Paper Products stock rises even higher, and Turtle gives the command to sell their stock. Doug Hoo has also taken off from school, supposedly to prepare for the track meet; but he's following Otis Amber again. Meanwhile, Theo had a slight miscalculation in his "solution" experiment and is in the hospital getting treated for minor injuries; the bomb squad questions him about his interest in explosives.

Another one of the important developments of this chapter is that Sandy and Judge Ford interview George Theodorakis. He tells them that he and Violet Westing were childhood sweethearts and planned to marry. Mrs. Westing, however, arranged Violet's marriage to a politician. Violet couldn't defy her mother, but she also couldn't go through with the wedding; tragically, Violet committed suicide to escape...