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More than 20 years ago I read a thriller (whose title I can't remember) where two men "exchange murders". The men had known each other in a pub or some similar place. One of the men wanted his wife killed, the other his rich uncle (not sure about the latter, could be some other relative). Some details:
- The wife is killed along with her lover (of whom the husband didn't know)
- The uncle was to be killed in a hit and run accident, but dies as a result of a heart attack before being hit.
- Both men communicate through newspaper messages, one of them was something like "the days are drawing in, the nights are drawing out".
There was an author's note at the beginning of the book saying that he had noticed that another author had used the "exchange of murders" plot, but he had not heard of it at the time of writing.
Any ideas?
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