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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... thing removed from the eye . But the com- pany commander Captain Freyberg would only com- plain . “ Don't touch a thing , " he would say . “ I want every single clue to be left intact . There are Nazis hiding every- where , and every ...
... thing removed from the eye . But the com- pany commander Captain Freyberg would only com- plain . “ Don't touch a thing , " he would say . “ I want every single clue to be left intact . There are Nazis hiding every- where , and every ...
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... thing I don't understand about you , dear old friend- what I positively bloody hate — is that you've started looking for it under rocks . . .for instance , over there at that table with those four young men sticking out their chins ...
... thing I don't understand about you , dear old friend- what I positively bloody hate — is that you've started looking for it under rocks . . .for instance , over there at that table with those four young men sticking out their chins ...
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... thing she needed to hear . Or if I cut her off from saying precisely the thing 143 against a wall. I could not see who the ...
... thing she needed to hear . Or if I cut her off from saying precisely the thing 143 against a wall. I could not see who the ...
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