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Turtle Wexler is the 13 year old daughter of Grace and Jake Wexler. Jake is a podiatrist and Grace claims to be an interior designer who isn't the most caring especially to Turtle. She has an elder sister named Angela who is engaged to a intern surgeon named Dr. Denton Deere (Turtle's least favorite heir) and is the "perfect" and favorable child who later turns out to be a bomber. Turtle's real name is Tabitha- Ruth, but she tells Mrs. Baumbach (Baba) to call her Alice. She is called Turtle because when she was younger, she would stick her little head out of a blanket and according to her family, she looked like a turtle. Turtle has golden hair which she always wears in a braid. (if people touch it or do something she didn't like, she kicks them in the shin.... hard) But, towards the end of the book, Turtle bombs a Sunset Towers elevator to protect Angela and gets her braid singed badly. After that Baba takes her to the Beauty Shop after she goes to the dentist and she gets a hairstyle that is shorter in the back and longer in the front. Even though kicking people sounds insecure, Turtle is actually VERY smart. She is into the Stock Market and her mother is not very nice to her in the beginning, but later in life comes to love her. In the majority of the book, Turtle had a crush on Doug Hoo, a resident of her apartment building, Sunset Towers. She marries Theo Theodorakis in the end of the book and decides not to have children in case that they inherit Theo's brother's speech and body spasms disorder. Her sister has a daughter named Alice. Turtle is the only one of the Westing heirs to solve the mystery and become friends with the paper company owner, mentor, and mastermind, Samuel W. Westing.

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