![]() ![]() ![]() Becoming increasingly uneasy, she accepts an invitation to stay for a few days in London with Miss Marple's somewhat pretentious nephew Raymond West and his wife Joan (who appear also in other stories with Miss Marple). She finds an old house in the small seaside resort of Dillmouth, in Devon, which instantly appeals to her, and she buys it.Īfter moving in, Gwenda begins to believe that she must be psychic, as she seems to know things about the house which she could not possibly know: the location of a connecting door that had been walled over, the pattern of a previous wallpaper, a set of steps in the garden that are not where they should be, and so on. While her husband Giles is still abroad on business, she drives around the countryside looking for a suitable house. She believes that her father took her directly from India to New Zealand when she was a two year-old girl and that she has never been in England before. "Let sleeping murder lie": this is the proverb (a variation on "Let sleeping dogs lie") which is not obeyed by twenty-one year old New Zealander Gwenda Reed (née Halliday), who has recently married and now comes to England to settle down there. ![]()
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