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* Played with in ''[[The Name of the Wind]]''. Kvothe leaves one of these messages for Bast, but survives his mission, to return home to find that Bast found the note earlier than he was supposed to and is pissed off.
* Subverted in the [[Lord Peter Wimsey]] novel ''Whose Body?'' with the smug murderer. When he knows the police are close to catching him, he plans to take poison and writes a gloating note to the police and Lord Peter to be found near his body. Unfortunately for him, the police burst in mid-sentence, and he's presumably tried and hanged as a common criminal.
* Played with in the climax of ''[[
* In Garth Nix's ''Shade's Children'' the escaped children routinely make these, very much aware that any mission could be their last.
* ''[[Neverwhere]]'': Door's dying father records a message for her. But Croup and Vandemar alter the message before she sees it.
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