White Mischief is a book by British journalist James Fox, first published in hardback 1982 by Jonathan Cape and in paperback in 1984 by Penguin.

[1] It is an account of the unsolved murder in 1941 of Josslyn Hay, the Earl of Erroll, a British expatriate in Kenya.

[3] Initially presented as a classic murder mystery, the first part of the story focuses on the dissolute lifestyles of the wealthy elite in colonial Kenya.

Although the identity of the murderer has never been discovered, the author claims to have found new evidence pointing to Sir Delves, and the second part of the book concentrates on the author’s investigations and his interviews with surviving participants in the drama, both in Kenya and in the United Kingdom.

[4] White Mischief, released in 1987, was directed by Michael Radford, and stars Charles Dance, Greta Scacchi and Joss Ackland.