SLEEPING MURDER - CHAPTERS 19-21

SLEEPING MURDER - CHAPTERS 19-21

I can't hardly believe we are a week away from wrapping another book! Time does fly when you are having fun!

Our reading today circles back to Lily (remember the one in service to the Hallidays?). Things still aren't resting easy in her mind. Besides there could be a monetary reward. So she writes a letter to the doctor to see if they can meet. It's time to share her questions and thoughts.

Meanwhile a new gardener has come to help out at Giles and Gwenda's home, employed by the ever crafty Miss Marple. Manning has been around a long time and worked in many of the area gardens. He's in the know. He reminisces about Helen and her love of fun. How the tennis court was fixed for her and then someone cut the net to pieces, how she had a foot accident that refused to heal. Poor girl had the worse luck!

J.J. Afflick. I don't know about you, but I get a visual of a slimy-type, used car salesman with his hair slicked back when I think of him. Afflick tells us he felt sorry for Helen. That she just wanted to have a bit of fun and was never allowed. But he was punished for his relationship with Helen. He wasn't her caliber. To end the chapter we see how he treats his wife, and you have to wonder if we are starting to get somewhere. After all, he does have a yellow car!