Fiction

• Wallis: The Novel
  Author: Edwards, Anne
  Publisher: Morrow $ 22 ISBN: 068808835X Date: 1991
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Wallis Warfield Spencer Simpson retains her pride and courage through an unhappy childhood, secures money and status through her lovers, and finds fame as the Duchess of Windsor.
Updated 11.2.05
• Famous Last Words
  Author: Findley, Timothy
  Publisher: Irwin $ 17.95 ISBN: 077201362 Date: 1981
  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. - Publisher Marketing.
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• Dance on a Sinking Ship
  Author: Kilian, Michael
  Publisher: St Martins $ 19.95 ISBN: 0312014139 Date: 1988
  On the eve of World War II, a glittering ship full of English aristocrats sets sail for the west in this gossipy account of the people and events that thrust England toward battle. Awash with intrigue, the Duke of York, Mrs. Simpson, the Mountbattens, and a host of Nazis cruise into danger, passion, and scandal.
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• To Catch a King
  Author: Patterson, Harry aka Jack Higgins
  Date: 1979
  In July, 1940, Hitler's terrifying war machine is headed toward England. In its wake, he plans to enthrone puppet monarchs under Nazi control, and a beautiful nightclub singer and a SS man turned British sympathizer are the only two who stand in his way.
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• Hollow Crown
  Author: Roberts, David
  Publisher: Carroll & Graf $ 24 ISBN: 0786710527 Date: 2003
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  Having dealt with death in Sweet Poison and The Bones of the Buried, Lord Edward Corinth is invited by his friend Joe Weaver, the press lord and close friend of the British royal family, for the comparatively simpler case of recovering certain letters stolen from the king's intimate friend Wallis Simpson. There is no mystery about who has taken these letters -- it is a woman called Mrs. Raymond Harkness, a former mistress of the king and a close friend of Edward's. When Edward goes down to Haling, the country house of conservative M.P. Leo Scannon where Mrs. Harkness is also a house guest, he cannot guess that retrieving stolen goods is to be complicated by a murder. Edward's friend and fellow sleuth, the journalist Verity Browne, returned from the savagery of the Spanish Civil War, welcomes the distraction of helping Edward investigate what suddenly becomes a double murder. Both Edward and Verity are soon involved with political protest and the fight against Fascism -- the Cable Street riots and the Jarrow March -- and both battle to find the truth behind the hollow crown in what the poet W. H. Auden called "a low, dishonest decade." - Publisher Marketing.
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• Thrones, Dominations
  Author: Sayers, Dorothy L. and Jill Paton Walsh
  Publisher: St. Martin's List Price: $ 23.95 ISBN: 0312181965 Date: 1998
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  Announcing the long-awaited return of newly weds Lord Peter Whimsey and Harriet Vane in Dorothy L. Sayers never-before-published final mystery. Set in 1939, during the short-lived reign of King Edward VIII, Thrones, Dominations is based on Sayers' original outline, and has been completed in Sayers' voice and style by Jill Paton Walsh, the celebrated Booker Prize-winning author of Knowledge of Angels.
  Suggested Reading: Traditional British Mysteries
• The Windsor Plot
  Author: Winslow, Pauline Glen
  Publisher: St Martins $ 14.95 ISBN: 0312882254 Date: 1985
  The Duke and Duchess of Windsor become pawns in a Nazi plot to kill King George VI and Winston Churchill and to return the Duke of Windsor to the throne of England.
  Updated 11.2.05

Nonfiction

• The Spy Went Dancing
  Author: Aline, Countess of Romanones
  Publisher: Putnam $ 19.95 ISBN: 039913509x Date: 1990
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  It is 1966. An ace operative, code named Tiger, is called out of semiretirement by the CIA for a crucial mission. Tiger is Aline, countess of Romanones, an internationally prominent socialite who can charm people into saying more than they intend to. The successor to Aline's The Spy Wore Red.
  Updated 10.25.05