Famous Last Words: A NovelDelacorte Press/Seymour Lawrence, 1981 - 396 pages Famous Last Words is part-thriller, part-horror story; it is also a meditation on history and the human soul. 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 a scandal and political corruption. |
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... Estrade . Estrade was secretária temporaria to the Duchess , a Spaniard injected into the household two weeks before the Windsors ' arrival , on a warm afternoon when Doctor Ricardo's back was conveniently turned . She was about to ...
... Estrade . Estrade was secretária temporaria to the Duchess , a Spaniard injected into the household two weeks before the Windsors ' arrival , on a warm afternoon when Doctor Ricardo's back was conveniently turned . She was about to ...
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... Estrade and Estrade had disappeared with it into the dressing - room with instructions to bring back a sleeveless evening gown of a lighter colour . Lighter shades were best in this kind of heat . But Estrade had not returned as quickly ...
... Estrade and Estrade had disappeared with it into the dressing - room with instructions to bring back a sleeveless evening gown of a lighter colour . Lighter shades were best in this kind of heat . But Estrade had not returned as quickly ...
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... Estrade . " Hands , too . " “ Oh , yes . Very much of the hands . And all the face . " Estrade sat back . Schellenberg , watching the Minister , bit very hard into another sugar loaf . " These British Commandos , " His Excellency said ...
... Estrade . " Hands , too . " “ Oh , yes . Very much of the hands . And all the face . " Estrade sat back . Schellenberg , watching the Minister , bit very hard into another sugar loaf . " These British Commandos , " His Excellency said ...
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