White Mischief

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Just before 3am on January 24th 1941 when Britain was preoccupied with surviving the Blitz the body of Josslyn Hay Earl of Erroll was discovered lying on the floor of his Buick at a road intersection some miles outside Nairobi with a bullet in his head. A leading figure in Kenyas colonial community the Earl had recently been appointed Military Secretary but he was primarily a seducer of other mens wives. Sir Henry Delves Broughton whose wife was Errolls current conquest had an obvious motive for the murder but no one was ever convicted & the question of who killed him became a classic mystery a scandal & cause celebre. Among those who became fascinated with the Erroll case was Cyril Connolly who joined up with James Fox for a major investigation of the case in 1969 for the Sunday Times magazine. After his death James Fox inherited the obsession & a commitment to continue in pursuit of the story both in England & Kenya in the late 1970s. One day on a veranda overlooking the Indian Ocean Fox came across a piece of evidence that seemed to bring all the fragments & pieces together & convinced him that he saw a complete picture...