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Seventh Victim
Robert Sheckley as Robert Šekli · 1953short story
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- Thememurder investigation
It is common and legal to murder someone if you want. The only catch is that if you want to kill someone, you must later be a voluntary victim, and it is up to you survive the murder attempt and be able to eliminate the would-be murderer. A man who has already done six murders (and survived six attempts against his own life) gets a name of his seventh victim, and it is a woman!
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- contained in Store of the Worlds: The Stories of Robert Sheckleycollection
- contained in The Best of All Possible Worldsanthology
- contained in The Collected Short Fiction of Robert Sheckleyomnibus
- contained in The Collected Short Fiction of Robert Sheckley: Book Onecollection
- contained in The Masque of Mañanacollection
- contained in "The Perfect Woman" and Other Storiescollection
- contained in The Wonderful World of Robert Sheckleycollection
- contained in Untouched by Human Handscollection