Either I should be arrested, charged and prosecuted for murder... or 'Nick' should be stripped of his anonymity and prosecuted for wasting police time and money and making the most foul of false allegations".
During the Middle Ages, sexuality and lust were seen, by some, as evidence of humanity's fall from grace, and the most foul of the seven deadly sins.
(They also drew a two-Test series in 1996-97, the Flippin' Murder Most Foul tour of Zimbabwe).
He is a bird for the sportsman's gun./ By that most foul and fiendish of all human decrees, the liberty and person of every man are put in peril.
Nearly a century later, after World War II in 1947, JS Dean wrote a book entitled, 'Murder Most Foul: a study of the road deaths problem'.
Waters explained that his father had died fighting Nazis and that he grew up in post-war England, receiving an in-depth education about the war: "I was spared no horrific detail of the heinous crimes committed in the name of that most foul ideology".
Othello does not seem to have suffered for the suggestion in its streets of murder most foul.
He was yellow-carded, but a majority of the 95,486 crowd roared with ironic approval at the sight of the most foul player in all Spain lying down and pretending that his bruise was something much worse.
"The moment he lost he came back and started saying some of the most foul anti-Semitic statements against the Jews, confirming what the West had said about him".
Green-wood Walking Tours: Scandals, Scalawags and Murder Most Foul (Sunday) A walking tour of the cemetery's most nefarious deceased residents, including murderers, gangsters and con men, will meet at the Gothic arch inside the entrance at 1 30 p.m. 25th Street and Fifth Avenue, Greenwood Heights, Brooklyn, (718) 210-3080, green-wood.com/toursevents; $15.
Intriguingly, Agatha Christie in a 1934 short story has a crime writer dissing his editor – "Ten to one he'll alter the title and call it something rotten like Murder Most Foul" – little suspecting that one of the Margaret-Rutherford-as-Miss Marple films would be given the name 30 years later.
