Short Stories
- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, "The Adventure of the Red Circle" (1911) — Sherlock Holmes short story about a New York mob hit in London
- Liam O'Flaherty, "The Sniper" (1923)
- Ernest Hemingway, "The Killers" (1927)
- Robert A. Heinlein "Revolt in 2100" (serialized in 1940, published as a book in 1953)
- Philip K. Dick, "The Last of the Masters" (1954) — science fiction novelette in which the last dictator on earth is assassinated by anarchists, successfully overthrowing the last government.
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