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...murder that obsessed the British essayist and critic for a decade. By the time Connolly died in 1974, he had come tantalizingly close to finding the answer to the question that had mesmerized two generations of colonial society: Who shot Josslyn Hay, 22nd Earl of Erroll, hereditary Lord High Constable of Scotland...
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 reader into a long-gone, closed world of privilege and debauchery. White Mischiefs authentic cast of characters is as satisfyingly repellent a crew as ever peopled Black Mischief, Evelyn Waugh's novel of English predators on the loose in Africa...
...going-but not enough to consider doing something else. Fishing, Brown explains, is simply in his blood: "We have a saying around here. 'If a child born in Maryland takes his first steps into the bay, he'll be a waterman.' Parents always say, 'Oh Lord, don't let my boy taste salt water...
...like to stay with the Church," one J. Press employee said yesterday. "That's the Lord's day and He said we should rest." Michael W. Hirschorn assisted in the reporting of this article...
Glowing with moral indignation, the Presi dent applied brimstone, aiming sulfurous blasts at the Soviet Union. "There is sin and evil in the world. And we are enjoined by Scripture and the Lord Jesus to oppose it with all our might . . . America has kept alight the torch of freedom . . . Let us pray for the salvation of all of those who live in that totalitarian darkness - pray they will discover the joy of knowing God. But until they do, let us be aware they are the focus of evil in the modern world...