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* [[Randall Garrett]]'s ''Unwise Child'' is a classic Asimov-style SF mystery involving a three-laws-compliant robot who appears to be murdering people.
* Asimov's ''[[The Naked Sun]]'' has the murderer take advantage of the fact that in order for the First Law to trigger, the robot in question must ''know'' that its actions have the potential to cause harm to human beings. This leads to things like having someone killed by having one robot pour poison in a glass of milk allegedly as part of an experiment to see how the chemical in question reacts with milk, with the milk to be safely discarded later -- and then, immediately after the first robot leaves, to order another robot to go to the kitchen, get the milk, and serve it to the murder victim -- which it unhesitatingly does because to the best of the second robot's knowledge, its just an ordinary glass of milk.
** The reason it's necessary to use two robots is because Three Laws programming is sophisticated enough that even if verbally ordered to believe the unknown substance is harmless, the robot will still not feed it to anyone without testing it first. Of course, if the robot doesn't know another robot has added any unknown substances, it won't feel any necessity for product safety testing.
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