Sentence examples similar to a corpse was discovered from inspiring English sources

Like Poirot, he's normally off-duty when when a corpse is discovered.

In its opening pages, a corpse is discovered under an editor's desk at a publishing house.

"David Gale" turns into a murder mystery, a variant of the kind of puzzle in which a corpse is discovered in a locked room.

And the coroner — who had once attended a meeting of the Sherlock Holmes Society to conduct a mock inquest of the murder from a Conan Doyle story in which a corpse is discovered in a locked room — found himself stymied.

Last weekend, at a used-book store, I picked up a quaint little hardcover Faber & Faber 1954 reprint of Charles Williams's 1930 novel "War in Heaven". In its opening pages, a corpse is discovered under an editor's desk at a publishing house.

The best first novel by an American author award went to Dry Bones in the Valley by Tom Bouman, in which a corpse is discovered on the property of an elderly man in Wild Thyme, Pennsylvania; while Gillian Flynn, author of Gone Girl, took the best short story prize for What Do You Do, from the Rogues anthology.

A day after a decapitated corpse was discovered in a burning car in south-east Amsterdam, the severed head that belonged to it has been found outside a cafe near the city centre.

In 2009, a mummified corpse was discovered in an another building's basement after residents complained of a foul odor coming up through the radiator and in the drains.

It is unclear why prosecutors have only now opened a criminal case against Mr. Kuchma, nearly 11 years after Mr. Gongadze's headless corpse was discovered in a forest outside Kiev.

In each case, the corpse was discovered in a car.

That ambition was never to be realised as Da Silva's tortured corpse was discovered on 23 January, a few weeks before the carnival.