Headscratchers / The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side

• Exactly what is wrong with Hailey Preston? Miss Marple vaguely alludes that something's fishy, but never more than that...
  • Considering when this was written (1962), and that he's described as "willowy, with long wavy hair", he's likely gay.^note willowy means tall, slender, and graceful, attributes considered stereotypically gay back then, while long hair on men was derided as effeminate until the early 1970s. The LGBT closet was in full force at that time, since being gay could get you arrested or worse. Homosexuality was illegal in England until 1967, in Scotland until 1980, and in Northern Ireland until 1982.