Mystery and Crime Brand, Max: "Murder Me!", (1935) v1

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First published as a 7 part serial in Detective Fiction Weekly starting 21 September 1935, under the title (quotes included in title):

"―Murder Me!"

Dan Barry, desperate to die, finds that he can't bring himself to commit suicide. So he hires an old enemy, Willett, to murder him.

"IT WAS MORE than an hour later when Willett sat again at the fire of David Barry, smoking, blowing up the smoke, looking carefully through the brown mist toward the dead man. Barry hung by the neck with a doubled curtain-cord tied about his throat. The cord was fastened to the balustrade of the library gallery. He was still swaying—the force in a pendulum runs down so slowly—and the movement stirred slightly the silver of his lifted hair. This gave him a touch of life. His face held a slightly sardonic grin and his head, twisted to the side, added an air of thought."

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