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* In [[Agatha Christie]]'s ''[[And Then There Were None]]'', General MacArthur had used a similar method to dispose of his wife Leslie's lover (who also was his [[Number Two]]) during [[World War I]]. Afterward he avoided attending church whenever the David and Bathsheba story was scheduled to be read, and Leslie later succumbed to [[Death by Despair]]. Otherwise, it went so well that even Scotland Yard detectives, told afterwards that murder is involved, cannot be sure that it really is. {{spoiler|Too bad a certain [[Hanging Judge]] ''and' [[Magnificent Bastard]] got notice of it and decided to murder him, alongside other [[Karma Houdini]]s.}} |
* In [[Agatha Christie]]'s ''[[And Then There Were None]]'', General MacArthur had used a similar method to dispose of his wife Leslie's lover (who also was his [[Number Two]]) during [[World War I]]. Afterward he avoided attending church whenever the David and Bathsheba story was scheduled to be read, and Leslie later succumbed to [[Death by Despair]]. Otherwise, it went so well that even Scotland Yard detectives, told afterwards that murder is involved, cannot be sure that it really is. {{spoiler|Too bad a certain [[Hanging Judge]] ''and' [[Magnificent Bastard]] got notice of it and decided to murder him, alongside other [[Karma Houdini]]s.}} |
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* In ''The Memoirs of [[Sherlock Holmes]]'' story "The Adventure of the Crooked Man", the victim was overheard arguing with his wife, and she was heard to say the name David. It turned out that she was alluding to the Biblical story described above; her husband had done something similar to a romantic rival thirty years earlier. |
* In ''The Memoirs of [[Sherlock Holmes]]'' story "The Adventure of the Crooked Man", the victim was overheard arguing with his wife, and she was heard to say the name David. It turned out that she was alluding to the Biblical story described above; her husband had done something similar to a romantic rival thirty years earlier. |
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* In Honor Harrington, "Honor among Enemies" there is a complicated subversion. Klaus Hauptman a shipping magnate is tired of losing ships(not to mention [[Papa Wolf| personal]] to pirates in the Silesian Confederation and pulls strings to get Honor who is an old political rival of his, assigned there. The subversion is that he is not trying to get Honor killed-exactly-and in principle would rather she succeeded. Hauptman is just thinking,"better her then my employees", that she is after all the officer with the qualifications he thinks necessary(in other words tactical wizardry combined with utter insanity), and there are in any case naval officers he would grieve over far more. |
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* In ''[[Vorkosigan Saga|Shards of Honour]]'' by [[Lois McMaster Bujold]], the (failed) invasion of Escobar is used by Emperor Ezar to [[Offing the Offspring|dispose]] of [[The Caligula|Crown Prince Serg]] and weaken the faction supporting him. |
* In ''[[Vorkosigan Saga|Shards of Honour]]'' by [[Lois McMaster Bujold]], the (failed) invasion of Escobar is used by Emperor Ezar to [[Offing the Offspring|dispose]] of [[The Caligula|Crown Prince Serg]] and weaken the faction supporting him. |
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** Earlier in the book, somebody else tried to kill the hero this way, twice. It didn't work. |
** Earlier in the book, somebody else tried to kill the hero this way, twice. It didn't work. |
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