Whistling in the Dark
Lesley Kagen
popular fiction
pg. 160-191

Mr. Fitzpatrick drove Troo and Sally over to Granny's. On the way over, he tells the girls how Hall hit Mr. Jerbak with a beer bottle, sending him to the hospital and Hall to jail. Instead of going inside of Granny's, the girls left to go over to Mrs. Galecki's to see Mr. Gary and Ethel. Ethel had the girls spend the night out on the screened porch. Once Troo fell asleep, Sally snuck over to Rasmussen's house to search for proof that he is the murder and molester. She creeped through his window to find a picture of one of the girls hanging on his wall. Sally ran to tell Ethel, who calmed her town. Apparently the girl was Rasmussen's niece and he just adored her. Sally woke up in Ethel's bed in the morning. Ethel brought her breakfast and made her get ready for her bath before the funeral for the girl. Once Sally got into the bath, Mr. Gary came in to get some asprin for his mother, but he stayed to talk to Sally while she was still in the bath, creeping her out a little bit.

This part of the book is intense. I didn't want to stop. I thought it was inappropriate and creepy that Mr. Gary came into the bathroom while Sally was bathing. Grown men that aren't part of your family just don't do that. She's 10 years old....