...take about ten of your chosen tablet or capsules with as large a drink of spirits or wine as you are comfortable with. Vodka is extremely effective.

Ninety-nine percent of requested deaths go unrecorded. It's a secret crime.

What about you?" he asked, his words not much more than a mumble. "Regrets?"

"Many," Skuduggery said.

Tesseract's breath rattled in his chest. "That's the goo thing about living. You get to make up for past mistakes."

"Or make brand-new ones.

Done to death by slanderous tongues

Death without dread of death is welcome death

A detective sees death in all the various forms at least five times a week.