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== [[Literature]] ==
* In ''[[The Day of the Jackal|Day of the Jackal]]'', the Jackal leaves the body of a photographer who tried to blackmail him in a chest. In this case, though, putting the corpse there was less because of being in a hurry and more to ensure that it wasn't likely to ever be found. He even rationalises away the possibility of [[Revealing Coverup]] by noting that the photographer had done work for the underworld before and thus there would be quite the gaggle of possible suspects to run through. In fact, his isn't one of the deaths that gives the Jackal away.
* [[Cornell Woolrich]]'s ''The Dilemma of the Dead Lady'' is a fine example. A jewel thief murders his unwitting accomplice, but because she's kind of wearing the stolen jewels, he needs to take her along on his ocean voyage—and things get worse from there.
* In [[Edgar Allan Poe]]'s "The Tell-Tale Heart", the body is dismembered and hidden under the floorboards. There's no ''actual'' clue that would give the location away to the police, who are about to leave on peaceful terms when the narrator begins to hallucinate that he can hear the corpse's heart beating....
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* In "The Muddle of the Woad" (one of Randall Garrett's [[Lord Darcy]] stories), the men who are delivering the Duke's coffin discover that there's already a body hidden in it. And before that, the corpse had been hidden inside a "preservator"—a [[Stuffed in The Fridge|large chest enchanted to keep foodstuffs preserved]].
* The [[Hercule Poirot]] short story "The Adventure of the Clapham Cook" by [[Agatha Christie]], a killer gets rid of a body by stuffing it in a trunk and having the trunk set to a railway station marked 'to be collected'. He later sends to trunk on to Glasgow in an attempt to lose it. This story was later adapted for small screen as part of the ''[[Poirot]]'' television series.
* Played with in ''[[Discworld/Thud|Thud!]]''. Sam Vimes gets threatened by two trolls from the troll equivalent of the Mafia. When Vimes meets with the boss later, he apologizes to Vimes for his underlings' disrespectful conduct and offers to install a new rock garden in Vimes' home... all the while sitting next to a very suspicious box that Vimes notes is too small to contain a ''whole'' troll...
* In the [[Ellery Queen]] short story "The Three Rs" (in the ''Calendar of Crime'' collection), it is made to appear that the victim's body has been placed in his trunk, covered in quicklime and shipped off to his summer cabin.
 
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== [[Music]] ==
* In the video for [[Golden Earring]]'s "Twilight Zone", the spy protagonist hangs up the phone, then leaves his hotel room, pausing to shove the hand that's protruding lifelessly from a footlocker down into it and out of sight.
 
== [[Newspaper Comics]] ==
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