Donald was beginning to find that Megan was replacing her sister in his heart, but because he could not bear to think of himself being unfaithful to Betty so soon after her death, he strove to stifle and kill the thought. Poirot later says that Donald's dream had a very natural explanation. Then her head falls back, and he sees that it is Megan, not Betty. He finds her sitting on the beach, and strangles her with the belt. In the dream, he is looking for Betty, who is lost, and needs to give her her belt. Later in the novel, Donald goes to see Poirot, to tell him about a recurring dream that he has been having. He went to Hastings, and looked for her at hotels, restaurants, cinemas, and on the pier. She was not, and he became convinced that she was with another man, and that they had gone to Hastings. He was suspicious, and went to St Leonards, watching the buses to see if she were on them. He says that he believed her when she first said it, but then he started to wonder, perhaps because of something in her manner. Betty had said that as she was not married to Donald yet, she had a right to go about with anyone she pleased, and Donald had said that one day, he would kill her.ĭonald tells Poirot that Betty had said she was going to St Leonards with a girl friend on the evening of the murder. The last row had been because Betty had told Donald that she was going to visit a girl friend, but he found out that she had really been to Eastbourne with another man. He and Betty had had a few big rows about this, and on one occasion he was so violent that she was frightened. He was devoted to Betty, and could not understand why she kept going out with other people if she was really keen on him. He has a jealous nature, and had always been jealous of Betty. He is described as a "well-made, fine-looking young fellow, standing close on six foot, not good-looking, but with a pleasant freckled face, high cheek-bones and flaming red hair".Īccording to Betty's sister, Megan Barnard, Donald is a very quiet, bottled-up person, who cannot always express his feelings in words, but does feel things intensely. He works at Court & Brunskill, house agents. He is temperamental and is the prime suspect for Betty's murder. Murders, Donald “Don” Fraser was Betty's would-be fiancee.
Jack Farthing as Donald Fraser (BBC miniseries)
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