Short Story, collection with different authors incl. Roald Dahl. Main character is robbed by his business partner, he kills his partner so he will be convicted, executed and get life insurance money for his family. Read in 1993, in Russian. Spoiler.

[Galery]

Sorry for my not perfect English.

I think the author was Dahl, but I'm not sure, The year of publishing is earlier than 1967.

The main character is robbed by his business partner. Being in despair because of losing ability to provide for his family, he kills his business partner in order to be executed, and therefore get life-insurance money for his family

SPOILER

. . .his lawyer (a court-appointed one) is too professional, so he got only life-long sentence.

[Galery]

The rockabilly werewolf from Mars wrote: "Still looking for this?"
Hell yes!

[Kris]

Galery, please post a new comment if you're still looking for this book - or if you found it.

Galery (OP) was last active on the site in March 2020. Moving to Abandoned folder.

[Galery]

Well, yes, I'm still looking for this.

I've read it in russian book of 1993 year, and it's also slightly possible that this very story was published in Russian in 1967.
Not very helpful with date, though.

The book had various authors' works, and couple of Roald Dahl short stories. I know english title and year of every his story in this book, but THIS i cannot find and that's why i'm asking for help. It is also possible, that author's name in the book was mistake, so please, keep it in mind.

[Galery]

Kris wrote: "Galery, please post a new comment if you're still looking for this book - or if you found it.

Galery (OP) was last active on the site in March 2020. Moving to Abandoned folder."

please, move the topic back

[Kris]

Thanks for the update, Galery. I moved your request back to the "Unsolved" folder.

I copied book details to the topic header. Feel free to edit it.