Scope and Contents ‘Is there a British Mystery?’: text of a talk delivered as part of a discussion evening for the Friends of the BU [Boston University] Libraries, in which P D James argues that the British mystery is firmly rooted in the mainstream of British literary tradition, more so than any other popular genre. No date, but possibly late 1980s? [she concluded her talk by reading ‘Mayhem Parva’, light verse which she ‘composed in celebration of that most English of all mysteries, the country house murder...