Investigating the death of a Legend

Abstract

Includes image: '___', 1927.

Abstract

The untimely death of the New Zealand iconic figure John Mulgan shortly after leaving liberated Greece in 1945 has fuelled popular conjecture about his suicide. An analysis of the investigation archive is carried out to determine to what extent one could argue he did not take his own life but was a victim of a British conspiracy. The degree of ambiguity, a key variable in conspiracy theorising, in the extended investigations of Mulgan's death, is considered, as well as any possible motivation for a cover-up.