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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... Elsa Maxwell , squat as a toad , was not notorious for tact . There was nothing she would not say or do , if the spirit moved her . Consequently , it was she who blundered upon Queen Mary in the course of making a foray into the for ...
... Elsa Maxwell , squat as a toad , was not notorious for tact . There was nothing she would not say or do , if the spirit moved her . Consequently , it was she who blundered upon Queen Mary in the course of making a foray into the for ...
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... Elsa was there ; she sailed in . What could be more natural ? She announced herself with one of her sumptuous coughs . Elsa was slightly asthmatic . And she had her excuses at the ready , like an ace up her sleeve . But she was not ...
... Elsa was there ; she sailed in . What could be more natural ? She announced herself with one of her sumptuous coughs . Elsa was slightly asthmatic . And she had her excuses at the ready , like an ace up her sleeve . But she was not ...
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... Elsa . " Don't be coy . I know . " Wallis felt an urgent need to be seated , but there was nowhere near enough to sit . It appeared to her stranded reason that Elsa could only have discovered one thing— since only one ' secret ' existed ...
... Elsa . " Don't be coy . I know . " Wallis felt an urgent need to be seated , but there was nowhere near enough to sit . It appeared to her stranded reason that Elsa could only have discovered one thing— since only one ' secret ' existed ...
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