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** In an another Christie novel, ''After the Funeral'', a character is talking on the phone; just before she could reveal a clue, she's struck on the head (but doesn't die).
** Christie is fond of these. It happens again in ''[[A Murder Is Announced]]'', when Miss Murgatroyd is trying to tell someone who wasn't in the room, and therefore was the killer. Not a strict example, since the person she's talking to, leaves, not realizing the importance of what Miss Murgatroyd is saying, and Miss Murgatroys is killed shortly afterwards.
* Subverted in ''[[Harry Potter and
* Done by a robot in [[Isaac Asimov]]'s ''[[Robots and Empire]]''. The robot has accidentally risked shooting a human and is breaking down as a result; it attempts to tell its interrogators that its masters are hiding out on {{spoiler|Three Mile Island}} but only manages to get out the word "mile", along with a couple of mouth motions.
** In Asimov's ''[[Foundation]] and Empire'', when Ebling Mis offers to tell where the Second Foundation secretly resides, Bayta blasts him dead because she knew the Mule was listening.
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