Famous Last Words
In the final days of the Second World War, Hugh Selwyn Mauberley scrawls his desperate account on the walls and ceilings of his ice-cold prison high in the Austrian Alps. Officers of the liberating army discover his frozen, disfigured corpse and his astonishing testament -- the sordid truth that he alone possessed. Fascinated but horrified, they learn of a dazzling array of characters caught up in scandal and political corruption. The exiled Duke and Duchess of Windsor, von Ribbentrop, Hitler, Charles Lindbergh, Sir Harry Oakes -- all play sinister parts in an elaborate scheme to secure world domination.
396 pages, 11 editions
English edition · First published 1981 by Penguin Books · ISBN 9780140109610
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Editions
11 editions
English
- Famous Last Words · Penguin Books · 1996 · ISBN 9780140109610 This page
- Famous Last Words · Penguin Canada · 2005 · ISBN 9780143051411
- Famous Last Words · Arena · 1988 · ISBN 9780099562306
- Famous Last Words · ISIS Large Print · 1988 · ISBN 9781850892298
- Famous Last Words: A Novel · Macmillan · 1987 · ISBN 9780333439135
- Famous Last Words · Faber and Faber · 1987 · ISBN 9780571209057
- Famous Last Words: A Novel · Penguin Books · 1984 · ISBN 9780140062687
- Famous Last Words · Random House Publishing Group · 1983 · ISBN 9780440325437
- Famous last words · Delacorte/S.Lawrence · 1982 · ISBN 9780385282710
- Famous Last Words: A Novel · Delacorte Press/Seymour Lawrence · 1981 · ISBN 9780440024774
- Famous Last Words: A Novel · Clarke, Irwin · 1981 · ISBN 9780772013620
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