The Dennis Wheatley 'Museum' - Gordon Eric Gordon-Tombe

In a scene worthy of a DW novel, 'Bill' Dyer died before the body was found.

After Gordon-Tombe's death, he moved from place to place, both in England and on the Continent. He used a variety of names and sometimes passed himself off as a Mr Tombe.

All the while he carried out petty frauds, and on the 16th November 1922, he was in Scarborough. Police went to arrest him on suspicion of a local fraud against ex-servicemen, and he began to draw a gun. In the tussle that followed he apparently shot himself, with instantly fatal results.



References : 'Drink and Ink' Chapter Four.
Phil Baker Chapter 19.