Radio Psychedelica

'According To The Plan Of A One Eyed Mystic' and 'Bequest of Evil' contain intreasting similarities.
In both cases there is a plan to sell secret weapons, there is a base by the seashore - in one case, on 'Death Island' somewhere north of Labrador, in the other in Labrador.
The head honcho in one is a short man referred to as 'Lucky Napolean'. He is supposedly a a european gangster. In the other book, his name isn't known, but he uses the alibi 'Mister Mystic' - he is a short man, with brown skin, and apparantly missing an eye.
'Bequest of Evil' is confused to the point of incoherency. An attempt is made to kidnap Doc. It fails. Monk is told he has inherited the Canadian estates of the Earl of Mayfair, along with five million dollars. He goes to the estate, where he is captured.
Its explained they wanted him because they thought he was an electronics expert! The famous Andrew Blodgett Mayfair, Chemist Extraordinare!
Then it turns out that the Earl of Mayfair isn't dead after all, and he looks just like Monk - like enough to impersonate Monk with ease. Oh, and did I mention that Earl Mayfair is actually a British Secret Agent?

'According to The Plan of a One Eyed Mystic' is almost as confused. Here a scheme to make people think that their minds have been swapped into other people's bodies is being perpetuated as part of a plan involving the
Sterling Instrument Company, which is making something for the war that is so secret that even Doc cannot gain any information when he calls the plant - an occurance he considers surprising. Something to do with the A-Bomb, perhaps?

Reading the two books together really gives me the idea that there was a Mad Scientists Lair somewhere along the Labrador coast, that it was run by a one-eyed man, and that he had developed several intreasting weapons and had made a deal to sell them to the Nazis. Or rather, to sucker the Nazi's into showing up with a submarine stuffed with money, and then murdering them all and taking everything. The kidnapping of scientists must have attracted Doc's attention, and he was already investigating when Monk is captured. Following Monk gives him the leads needed to storm the hidden base, after provoking a fight between the henchmen and the Nazis.
The tale - no doubt a complex one - is heavily garbled, and furnishs material for two seperate books.

So is Monk an Aristocrat?
Considering that he hates being referred to by his given names, and makes a point of dressing and acting like some sort of sideshow buffoon makes me think its just an act. A clumsy clown like show, at odds with his brains and his upbringing, I suspect.