Word: errolle
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Hemingway made it his happiest hunting ground. Isak Dinesen, in Out of Africa, compared it to England in the 18th century, when an aristocrat might possess a "lovely landscape and a multitude of servants." For Cyril Connolly, however, the East African colony of Kenya was no paradise lost. It was...
Connolly's original partner in detection and the heir to his notebooks was James Fox, a British journalist who went on to reconstruct the crime and, after trips to Kenya and interviews with Lord Erroll's friends, produce a plausible murderer. His gift for narrative immediately carries the...
Feckless, flashy Lord Erroll was a leader of the British gentry that had settled in Happy Valley near Nairobi in the 1920s and 1930s seeking the openly hedonistic existence that was denied them at home. Unobserved except by the black servants whom they regarded as subhuman, the nobs did as...
When Lord Erroll was found shot through the head at the age of 39, in 1941, police arrested one of the cuckolded husbands, Sir John Henry ("Jock") Delves Broughton, 57. The motive seemed compelling. Broughton's bride of three months, Diana, 27, had fallen in love with Lord Erroll...
The most revealing anecdote in this enthralling tale comes from Diana, now Lady Delamere. When Fox caught up with the 68-year-old millionaire in 1981, he was impressed by her still handsome figure, her "ice-blue eyes," and her sapphires and diamonds. She told Fox about another crime, perhaps...