The Harassed Hero — Ernest Dudley

Murray Selwyn, six-foot-two and athletic, was so convinced he had not long to live that when he came across a hold-up, a murder and masses of forged fivers, he was too worried about catching a chill to give them much attention. But when he met his pretty nurse, Murray began to forget his ailments, and by the end of a breath-taking chase after some very plausible crooks, the hypochondriac had become a hero.