Three Out Of Four Moptops

I have just started to read The Killing Of Julia Wallace, Jonathan Goodman’s account of one of the twentieth century’s most intriguing murder mysteries. The events took place in 1931, in Liverpool. Thirty-odd pages in, I have been struck by the following:

One of the key locations is Menlove Avenue, the road where John Lennon grew up. The evening before the murder of his wife, William Herbert Wallace played chess with a man named McCartney, and on the day of the killing itself, he paid a visit to a Mrs Harrison. Alas, the index shows no sign of anyone called Starkey, or Starr. Still, three out of four loveable moptops is a pretty good tally so far as meaningless yet interesting coincidences go.

3 thoughts on “Three Out Of Four Moptops

  1. It’s that bloody Illuminati lot again…
    I’m sure you know the definition of a ‘Beat Group..’
    Three musicians and a drummer…
    Maybe the Illuminati consider drummers to be inconsequential in their sinister world domination schemes..
    I have to go now…
    I have to write out “I must stop reading this Robert Anton Wilson twaddle” a hundred times…

    O.S.M.
    (no mention of anyone called Best is there?)

  2. OSM : No Best, no Sutcliffe, no Epstein, nor any of the candidates for “fifth Beatle”. I am of course hoping that a certain “Ono” proves to have a significant role in the murder…

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