In the notorious parlance of the British upper crust, was he cad, bounder or rotter? Or the British Führer in waiting? Which appellation might best suit the 7th Earl of Lucan, one Richard Bingham, who disappeared on the night of 8th November 1974, leaving his battered wife and the mangled body of the family maidservant in the blood-spattered basement of the family home in London’s posh Belgravia. The legendary vanishing trick of Lord Lucan, never again seen in mortal form since that fatal night, is the veritable Bigfoot of British crime annals.