Anyone ever consider that Humbert isn’t a murderer? That there is no Q but rather Humbert invented him as a projected image of everything that he finds disgusting about himself? I mean we already know Humbert is an unreliable narrator and his unreliability is both due to the fact that he is trying to influence the readers perception of him and also due to the fact that he is mentally unstable. However, his mask has dropped at least twice in the book, particularly when he mentions she cried herself to sleep every night and then that short chapter when we see a little of the obsession behind the calm, collected person we are presented with (the one that ends with “Lolita, lolita, lolita, lolita…”)