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* Parodied in ''The Big Over Easy'', the first of the [[Nursery Crime]] series, where the obnoxious ace detective mentions a case in which the victim pointed at an object which was an anagram of the first half of the killer's surname, and the detective regards this as an entirely reasonable combination of "the victim pointed at an object that related to the killer's name" and "the victim tried to say the killer's name but died halfway through".
* ''The Seventh Sinner'' by Elizabeth Peters: the dying man scrawled "VII". Now which of the group of seven tourists should be considered the seventh? {{spoiler|He was actually starting to write "Virginia," the name of one of them whom most of the group knew only by her nickname}}.
* [[Sarcasm Mode|Astonishingly]], this is the case in [[Georgette Heyer]]'s ''The Unfinished Clue''. The [[Asshole Victim|General]] only had enough strength after being stabbed to write "There" -- and almost no one knew {{spoiler|his ex-wife, Theresa, lived nearby under another name}}.
== 2. Dying people lack clear elocution ==
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