Moote, Mull, and Boyd was a law firm operating in Kalamazoo, Michigan, whose founding partners included Mephistopheles Moote, Mr. Mull, and Ernest Boyd. By the mid-1950s, "Moote [was] retired...Mull [was] dead, and...Boyd [was] about as talkative as the Sphinx" (The Beast under the Wizard's Bridge, 79).