In VN’s novel Ada (1969) Van’s and Ada’s father, Demon Veen perishes in a mysterious airplane disaster above the Pacific (3.7). It seems that Ada (who could not pardon Demon his forcing Van to give her up) managed to persuade the pilot to destroy his machine in midair. In Alexandre Dumas's “The Three Musketeers” (1844) Milady de Winter persuades John Felton, a Puritan, to kill Duke of Buckingham. In Lestrygonians, Episode 8 of Joyce’s Ulysses (1922), the Buckingham Palace hotel in Dublin is mentioned: