Works About The Hughes Affair
- Fay, Stephen, Lewis Chester and Magnus Linklater. Hoax: The Inside Story of the Howard Hughes-Clifford Irving Affair (1972). Irving says this book is "mostly fiction".
- Irving, Clifford, and Richard Suskind. Project Octavio: The Story of the Howard Hughes Hoax (London: Allison & Busby, 1977; originally New York: Grove Press, 1972)
- F for Fake, a documentary film by Orson Welles (1974), includes a segment on Irving filmed around the time the Hughes autobiography scandal broke.
- Der Scheck heiligt die Mittel, another documentary film by Henry Kolarz on German TV (1974). Richard Suskind portrayed himself.
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