Will Lord Lucans Disappearance Remain a Mystery Forever?
One of the reasons that the Lord Lucan mystery exerts such a peculiar fascination is that, for many people, there is something very enticing about the idea of… disappearing off the face of the earth. Men, in particular, seem to love the dog of abandoning their wives, children, jobs, mortgages and all the other bits of paraphernalia that we acquire in our lives. And with one single slash, we can be done with this great Gordian knot of mundane boredom that binds us to our middle-class lives. Of course we can, if we want to, get a divorce and leave our jobs and abandon our children… yet the actual practicalities are always going to be rather difficult. Going to take a few months to get shot of your commitments, and in that time – well, your resolve might start to falter. You might start to see your wife in a slightly better light; children might not be such a pain; even the job might not seem so bad. Life, in short, might be a bit boring, but not worth abandoning completely. However,
