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[[spoiler: Sandy]]. Everyone assumed that the thief wanted those notes in order to gain an unfair advantage in the Game, but [[spoiler: Sandy took it for precisely the opposite reason, to ensure that ''nobody'' would have such an edge. In fact, he was so concerned about it skewing the competition that her snowshoed over from the Westing Mansion and hid in Sunset Towers' utility areas until Ms. Pulaski left her notebook unguarded.]] It wasn't returned until later on, once the culprit was sure that Sydelle could be persuaded to share the translation with everybody equally.

** Although by that point he had remarried, and he appears so little in the book that for all we know, he did.

[[spoiler: Sandy]]. Everyone assumed that the thief wanted those notes in order to gain an unfair advantage in the Game, but [[spoiler: Sandy took it for precisely the opposite reason, to ensure that ''nobody'' would have such an edge.]] It wasn't returned until later on, once the culprit was sure that Sydelle could be persuaded to share the translation with everybody equally.

[[WMG: [[spoiler: Sandy]] stole Sydelle's shorthand notebook.]]
Everyone assumed that the thief stole her notes so as to get an unfair advantage in the Game, but [[spoiler: Sandy took it for precisely the opposite reason, to ensure that ''nobody'' would have such an edge.]] It wasn't returned until later on, when the culprit was sure that Sydelle could be persuaded to share the translation with everybody equally.

** ''Sam Westing'''s official history says he's an only child. That doesn't necessarily mean that [[spoiler: ''Windy Windkloppel'' didn't have any siblings]]. Also, this would only work if [[spoiler: Grace and ''her own parents'' completely failed to recognize one another, despite how both of the latter worked at Sunset Towers for months before the Game began.]] And we know for a fact that [[spoiler: Sandy, at least, had watched Grace closely enough to anticipate her actions ("Sit down, Grace Windsor Wexler!").]]

** ''Sam Westing'''s official history says he's an only child. That doesn't necessarily mean that [[spoiler: ''Windy Windkloppel'' didn't have any siblings]]. Also, this would only work if [[spoiler: Grace and ''her own parents'' completely failed to recognize one another, despite how both of the latter worked at Sunset Towers for months before the Game began.]] And we know for a fact that [[spoiler: her dad, at least, had watched Grace closely enough to anticipate her actions ("Sit down, Grace Windsor Wexler!").]]

** ''Sam Westing'''s official history says he's an only child. That doesn't necessarily mean that [[spoiler: ''Windy Windkloppel'' didn't have any siblings]]. Also, this would only work if [[spoiler: Grace and ''her own parents'' completely failed to recognize one another, despite how both of the latter worked at Sunset Towers for months before the Game began.]]

** ''Sam Westing'''s official history says he's an only child. That doesn't necessarily mean that [[spoiler: ''Windy Windkloppel'' didn't have any siblings]]. Also, this would only work if [[spoiler: Grace and ''her own parents'' completely failed to recognize one another, despite how both her folks had been working in Sunset Towers for months before the Game began.]]

** ''Sam Westing'''s official history says he's an only child. That doesn't necessarily mean that [[spoiler: ''Windy Windkloppel'' didn't have any siblings]]. Also, this would only work if [[spoiler: Grace and ''her own parents'' not recognizing one another, despite how both her folks had been working in Sunset Towers for months before the Game began.]]

** ''Sam Westing'''s official history says he's an only child. That doesn't necessarily mean that [[spoiler: ''Windy Windkloppel'' didn't have any siblings]].

Think about it: Grace is 42 during the events of the story. Violet supposedly died twenty years before the events of the story, and she was in her twenties at the time, thus making her about the same age as Grace. Also, it's mentioned in the story that Sam Westing was an only child, meaning that he couldn't possibly have real nieces or nephews. If Grace really is biologically related to Sam, as she repeatedly claims throughout the story, she'd almost have to be one of Sam's daughters, but since it's also mentioned in the story that Sam had only one daughter, this means that Grace Wexler and Violet Westing are one and the same. Why isn't she dead, then? Simple: she faked her own death to get out of marrying that dude her parents set her up with in order to marry Jake Wexler.