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* [[H. G. Wells]]' short story "The Story of the Late Mr. Elvesham" is a [[Dead Man Writing]] account by the victim, who insists he's not the real Elvesham, but a much younger man with whom Elvesham swapped bodies by means of some odd drug. He hopes this testament will get out and serve as a warning to the body-thief's next intended victim. At the end, he mentions that he's taking what he believes to be poison. A postscript by an unidentified third party comments that the document is written in a hand very unlike Elvesham's usual. Also, Elvesham's will left his fortune to the younger man ... but {{spoiler|the heir was killed in a traffic accident even before "Elvesham" poisoned himself}}....
* In Norman Spinrad's ''Agent of Chaos'', it's briefly mentioned that instead of faking identification documents, the Brotherhood of Assassins replaces innocent people with "Brothers, altered, where necessary, to be their exact duplicates." And then uses their identity papers.
* In [[Andre Norton]]'s ''
* A. E. Van Vogt's short story "Dear Pen Pal" features a mysterious alien criminal who writes to a human from his prison cell. The alien turns out to have developed a method for body-swapping {{Spoiler|and tries to scam the human into using it so he can escape. It works out well - for the 'victim'}}.
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