The Queen's Golden Jubilee was taking up the space and there was no room for a sordid murder with the chief suspect having left the scene.

For some reason or other you have got it into your head that I know something about this sordid business-this murder of a man I never saw before.

It was a fictional recounting of the famous Pyjama Girl Case involving an apparently sordid murder which remained unsolved for many years.

After all, why should certain seemingly abnormal aspects about a sordid murder upset him?

Miksha is a Jewish tailor's apprentice turned revolutionary whose commitment and cruelty lead him to commit a sordid murder and die in prison.

This sordid murder of an old woman in a back street shop was so like the usual type of crime reported in the newspapers that it failed to strike a significant note.

Almost as if each had participated in some sordid murder or suicide through the years.

In his present mood it looked anything but a "good view" to him, rather an ideal spot for heroin intrigues and sordid murders.

Gang rape, mutilation, gratuitous violence, looting, sordid murders, not to mention the mockery made every day of the most fundamental freedoms, in a State that is in full decline.

Was it all violence and brutality, the kind of sordid murder or robbery which was beneath his, Poirot's, dignity to investigate?