Sassinak by Anne McCaffrey and Elizabeth Moon has the title character, as a junior officer in space some way into the story, wake up having been tossed in an escape pod. She figures out instantly it's clearly a frame in progress, and gets rescued - having refused to do something stupid and mess with the evidence....
Agatha Christie in particular - people who try to blackmail murderers pretty much always die in her stories.
There's a particularly good late Columbo episode, "Columbo Cries Wolf" - he couldn't prove the initial murder because it was faked and the 'victim' wasn't dead; she and her business partner got a lot of publicity out of it. Then the business partner killed her, knowing Columbo would have a LOT of trouble investigating the real killing properly after the fiasco of the fake...he'd need to be able to do a proper search, and after the first time would have trouble getting the warrants...
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Date: 2025-05-03 03:58 pm (UTC)Agatha Christie in particular - people who try to blackmail murderers pretty much always die in her stories.
There's a particularly good late Columbo episode, "Columbo Cries Wolf" - he couldn't prove the initial murder because it was faked and the 'victim' wasn't dead; she and her business partner got a lot of publicity out of it. Then the business partner killed her, knowing Columbo would have a LOT of trouble investigating the real killing properly after the fiasco of the fake...he'd need to be able to do a proper search, and after the first time would have trouble getting the warrants...