Competent, respectable practitioner of the time-honored art of medicine, Dr.Harry Brown - failure! Until the day old man Gresham, with his bum ticker, his millions, and his voluptuous young spouse, hired Harry as his doctor. Then it was money, luxury- and love. But what happens to a doctor when someone slips a corpse into his locked apartment? What can a man say when he finds himself a member of an organized crime ring? How can Harry tell his richest patient he's having an affair with the man's wife? It's enough to give a man a heart attack. But which man? (cover)

The perfect weapon

Kurt Gresham smiled again. "You were the sucker. You were the patsy in the middle. The expendable man. And they couldn't wait."
"What?" Harry asked blinking. "What did you say?"
"Don't you know? You mean you still don't see it?"
"See what?"
"That you'd been framed by my wife and her lover? Ah, she didn't tell you about Tony? Oh yes, Tony and Karen. I've known about it since the day it started. What I didn't know was that theirs was no ordinary liaison. I didn't know they were planning my murder and were only waiting for the right weapon to come along. You!"

Cast of characters. Written by Henry Kane. Later reprinted in the 1964's September issue of Men's magazine. Being the kind of magazine it was the title was changed to 'Everyone hungered for Karen Gresham' and pictures were added accordingly...

Kill as Directed Translations:  Dutch/Flemish: Moord volgens Instructie  Finnish: Paholaisen pauloissa  aka Kuin kala verkossa  German: Hausarzt in der Hölle  Hungarian: Gyilkosság rendelésre  Italian: Assassinio su ricetta  Portuguese: Assassínio premeditado  Spanish: Muerte dirigida  Turkish: Aradaki silah (aka Silah)