Ellen Pugg

In the novel Sleeping Murder, Ellen Pugg was a woman who lived in or near Dillmouth around the time of the disapearencer of Helen Halliday. When Gwenda Reed was searching through the Parish registers of death, looking for the death of Helen, the closest name she could find was Ellen Pugg. Since Ellen had been ninety-four at the time of her death, there couldn't have been a mix-up.