Looking for Lord Lucan - #2: In a speedboat, with a large sack, in the English Channel

Taki Theodoracopoulos, who writes for The Spectator and the London Times, believes Lucan bought a 20-foot speedboat in the year before he disappeared.

In 1974, he says, Lucan made two dummy runs from Belgravia to the South Coast with a mysterious sack weighing eight stone.

Lucan certainly knew about powerboats, having competed in the 1964 Cowes-Torquay race. Theodoracopoulos says Lucan borrowed £5,000 from him shortly before the murder.

Patrick Marnham, in his book “Trail of Havoc”, suggests that the money was to pay a hitman.

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When the first post about Lucan showed up, I'd never heard of him. He looked like Edward Mulhare (http://www.tvtome.com/tvtome/servlet/ShowMainServlet/showid-1457/The_Ghost_and_Mrs_Muir/) borrowing Paddy Clancy's sweater. Then I read up on the link provided and this Lucan sounds like Mr. Rochester run amok. Best of luck finding him.

Too bad we lost the little Hunter S. Thompson tribute in the comment thread, but I had to laugh at the GoogleAdWords for "Lucan Weather" and "Orange Beach Boat Race" that came up when I checked in on this article.

And I would have thought Adam Smith would fall back on the wealth of the nations before taking a job with the Austria/Portugal hotel association axis.

This is very interesting.