SLEEPING MURDER - CHAPTERS 10-12

SLEEPING MURDER - CHAPTERS 10-12

The image of a father. I keep coming back to this in my mind. Gwenda has very little recollection of her father. She was very young when sent to New Zealand to live. Surely in her mind's eye she had conjured up an honorable, courageous, militaristic type man. Now that image is breaking as she and Giles visit the Sanatorium. Was he a man capable of the murder he believes he committed? Neither Dr. Kennedy nor Dr. Penrose believes so. But Halliday was so sure of it and unable to live with it, that he commits suicide. What about the drugs that he believes Helen was giving him? Was he losing his mind? Was he jealous and acted upon that? Was he a pawn? But the real question is IS HELEN REALLY DEAD? Gwenda reads her father's journal and we can't help but get a glimpse of the dedicated father he was. Protecting his daughter to the end, he gains some assurance that she will never know, and yet here we are!

What are we starting to think about Helen and all the men in her life? What type of person is she really? She goes out to marry Fane, can't do it, marries Halliday, but then our mysterious "X" enters in. A romance on the boat on the way to India? If she didn't love Fane why was she going to marry him all the way out in India?

Then we meet Lily. Poor Lily who has a husband that hardly pays attention to her. She was employed in the Halliday household the night everything happened and she knows that what was thrown in the suitcase wasn't right. She also remembers a married man that Helen was sweet on.