The Dennis Wheatley 'Museum'

Period	Location	Reference On Maps	Reason
1922	Hayes Lane, Kenley, Surrey CR8 (Near Croydon)	q	The site where DW's amoral friend and mentor Gordon Eric Gordon Tombe was murdered by his associate Ernest Dyer

Hayes Lane as it is now

The approach to the cesspit and (right) Ian Sayer standing at the exact spot
in the 1990s while researching his Sunday Times article

Here lay 'The Welcomes', the derelict racing stable that DW’s great friend of World War I bought with Eric Dyer and burnt down to claim the insurance.

The plan failed, and when Gordon Tombe went down a few weeks later, he was murdered by his collaborator Dyer.

The body was found some years later and the murder investigation was one of the most famous of the decade.

References :
'Drink & Ink' pages 47-49.
'Reminiscences of an Ex-Detective' by Francis Carlin (Hutchinson, n.d.) Chapter 6.
Phil Baker Chapters 17-19.
The Museum, Room 3, and more specifically, this page

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