1927 was a great year in England, long hot summers, music and laughter and fun and love. It was great to be alive in 1927 unless that is you were Robert Mullen. For a shy expert on tea, it was a quiet and slightly embarrassing time, a time when women ran free with their emotions, leaving Robert a prisoner in his own home.

Robert was born the son of a tea collector, a tea collector not only known for their fine collection of tea, but for their unusually long black beard. Yes! Robert’s mother was a very unusual woman.

As for Robert’s father, he had made a mint. That really was the highlight of his father’s life, making a mint in the kitchen one Sunday afternoon.

Late in the summer of 1927, Robert went for a drive through the quiet streets of Selhurst. No one knows what happened to him. Local reports claim that only his car was found. Some people suggest he ran off with an actress from the musical stage. As if? But some people are just mad!