The Westing Game/YMMV

• The Woobie: Aspiring writer/chessplayer and dutiful son Theo Theodorakis, whose primary duties are to his parents' business and his ill younger brother. His infatuation with Angela goes unrequited, and he later becomes a suspect in the Westing House bombings after accidentally blowing up his high school chemistry lab.
  • Angela could also fit. She spends the book dealing with her mother making a huge fuss out of the upcoming wedding, which Angela doesn't even want to do. She doesn't seem to have many friends and her bridal shower is full of women she doesn't even know. And she feels she can't just call off the wedding because she doesn't want to hurt her fiance or let her mother down.
  • Sun Lin Hoo. She spends the first part of the book completely homesick and unable to speak any English at all. It's implied that this is the case because no one speaks to her besides her husband.
• Magnificent Bastard: Sam Westing pretty much fits all categories.