Summary

In “Number Twelve, The Avenue (9 July 1976),” Sheila Dakin is vacuuming her house and singing loudly. This unnerves her daughter and they have a conversation about Patsy Cline and other celebrities who had untimely deaths, that her daughter finds Sheila’s sunbathing in the front lawn undignified, and that Walter Bishop is responsible for Mrs. Creasy’s disappearance. Lisa, 15, Sheila’s daughter, recounts how Walter stares at her and her friends and makes them feel uneasy. The conversation degrades into a fight about how Lisa has to take care of her little brother when her mother is not up to it. Dorothy Forbes arrives at the door and Sheila and Dorothy converse about Margaret Creasy possibly finding their connection to the 1967 fire and either went to the police or was silenced by someone else.

Sheila...