Whistling in the Dark
Lesley Kagen
popular fiction
pg. 100-126

Sally returned from her outing with Nell and Eddie to find Troo in the backyard making all of her flowers to decorate her bike. She told her about her run in with Rasmussen. Sally and Troo then started to discuss what they would have to do if their mother died until Troo left for the playground. When Troo left, Wendy came by to see "Thally O'Malley." When she came over, Sally decided to ask her questions about her accident in order to find out if Rasmussen did that to her. Wendy avoided most of Sally's questions though. After Wendy left, Sally went down into the basement where she liked to hide and escape things. Once she found a shoe box in a whole in the wall that was filled with pictures and stuff. There was a picture of Washington High School Class of 1940. Sally recognized almost everyone in that photo including her mother. After studying the picture many times, Sally finally realized the one person she couldn't put a finger on was Rasmussen. Later that night, Sally and Troo over hear Nell and Eddie fighting again. However, they don't worry about it and are playing their usual game of red light, green light with all the neighbors. All was fine until Sally was suddenly pulled down by her braid by someone right by the Fazio's. They whispered, "Sally, dear, I love you," before running off. Sally was positive it was Rasmussen, but when she woke up, Rasmussen was holding her on her front porch comforting her.

Even though this book is set in around the 50's, it still relates a lot to times today. There are still abusive relationships like the one between Nell and Eddie. I'm also really interested in to whether or not Rasmussen is the one behind all the murders and the one harassing Sally...