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SLEEPING MURDER
A Miss Marple Mystery
Characters
• Gwenda Halliday Reed: 21 years old and newly married woman from
New Zealand, settling in England with her new husband.
• Giles Reed: Husband of Gwenda, who met her in New Zealand.
Orphaned, as she is, and in a business requiring travel.
• Mrs Cocker: Cook for the Reed household.
• Raymond West: Well known author and nephew of Miss Jane Marple.
• Joan West: Painter, wife of Raymond, and cousin to Giles Reed.
• Miss Jane Marple: Aunt to Raymond, loves to garden, and an old wo-
man with a way of finding out murderers.
• Dr Haydock: Miss Marple's physician, who she talks into advising her to
take a trip at the seaside.
• Edith (Edie) Pagett: Cook to the Halliday home St Catherine (now called
Hillside) years earlier, who still resides in Dillmouth.
• Leonie: Young Swiss woman who was briefly nurse or nanny for the
child Gwenda at St Catherine house, and saw something out the nurs-
ery window the night Helen disappeared.
• Lily Abbott Kimble: House parlour maid in the Halliday household, who
is now married.
• Manning: Gardener, now 75 years old, to the Kennedy household when
Helen was alive.
• Major Kelvin Halliday: Married to Megan, and father of Gwenda. After
Megan died, he remarried to Helen Kennedy, a young woman he met
on the ship back to England with his daughter. He died under the de-
lusion that he murdered his second wife.
• Alison Danby: The aunt who raised Gwenda in New Zealand, sister to
her late mother.
• Helen Spenlove Halliday (née Kennedy): Young blonde woman, half sis-
ter to Dr Kennedy, wife to Major Halliday, and stepmother to
Gwenda. She was a lively and loving young woman.
• Dr James Kennedy: He is the older half brother to Helen, who raised her
once both parents died. He retired from practice soon after his sister
disappeared, and now lives in Woodleigh-Bolton.
• Jackie (J. J.) Afflick: Local boy, first working as clerk in Fane's law firm,
dismissed for cause but possibly framed. He briefly socialized with
Helen when she returned from school. He is now married to
Dorothy, and a businessman with a coach tour service in Devon and
Dorset, based in Exeter.
• Walter Fane: Son of the local lawyer, he tried a tea plantation in India,
failed at that, returned to Dillmouth to practise law in his father's
firm, always a bachelor. He proposed to Helen, she went out to
marry him, but turned him down when she arrived there, realizing
she did not love him at all.
• Richard Erskine: Married man who met Helen on the ship to India,
when he was travelling alone. They both knew their strong attraction
had no future, so gave it up. He resides in Northumberland.
• Mrs Janet Erskine: Wife of Richard, and mother to their two sons. The
family vacationed in Dillmouth at the time when Helen disappeared.
• Dr Penrose: On staff at Saltmarsh House nursing home in Norfolk
where Major Halliday spent the last years of his life.
• Inspector Last: First officer to appear on the scene when Lily's body is
found.
• Detective inspector Primer: Takes the lead on the investigation of Lily's
murder and the suspicion of where Helen is buried once Gwenda
tells the police all of the story. Colonel Melrose had once pointed
Miss Marple out to him.
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