Ged, I think not consulting a map of sorts is the most glaring one. If he was so gung ho to get a commission that he was asking all around, making himself known etc....why did he not know where he was going? If the business was so important...how could he have not known beforehand there was no Menlove Gardens East.

I think the address that doesn't exist is a strong indicator of a phony plot (one concocted by Wallace to make it seem as if he was tricked.) If the motive was to get Wallace out of the way, it would have been in fact much better to send him to an existing address and confuse him rather than have him possibly find out the address doesn't exist beforehand and not go at all.



Murphy contends Wallace actually meant to say West and Beattie got it wrong; not likely in my opinion. (Perhaps Parry said it wrong?) But I do think Wallace would have been better off picking an existing address. He could have gone there and created a further alibi with another person and then made it seem like maybe he thought Beattie got it wrong and gone to the other existing two Menlove Gardens. I think using an existing address would have actually benefited the plotter whether it was Wallace or not.