Death
McCoy took his own life in Detroit on April 18, 1940. Even his death was enigmatic. He committed suicide at the Hotel Tuller in Detroit by an overdose of sleeping pills, leaving a note behind. It read, among other things: "Everything in my possession, I want to go to my dear wife, Sue E. Selby... To all my dear friends... best of luck... sorry I could not endure this world's madness." In an apparent last attempt to drop his professional moniker, the note was pointedly signed as, "Norman Selby".
His life was the loose model for the multiple award-winning novel The Real McCoy by Darin Strauss.
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