This time, "The World's ..." team tackle the wealthiest losers in the world. Many of the usual suspects are covered (Howard Hughes, Barbara Hutton, J. Paul Getty and a bunch of other people who inherited vast wealth), along with dictator Baby Doc Duvalier and dictator's wife Imelda Marcos, and others not so well known, including a few that seem to be just space fillers.

Weirdly, the back page of my copy of The World's Wealthiest Losers highlights the incredibly wealthy Russian nobleman who thought he had lost everything in the Russian Revolution only to remember that he owned a chateau in France (I know how he feels; I'm forever forgetting about my French chateaux and I'm sure you're the same) but the story does not actually appear in the book. Shame. ( )