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By the way, the word "ransack" (rarely used in any other context) is from the Old Norse ''rann'' "house" and ''saka'' "search".
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* [[JRR Tolkien (Creator)|JRR Tolkien]]'s ''[[Lord of the Rings]]'' has an inn room ransacked by the Nazgûl, and by ransacked, I mean beds that were stabbed multiple times with [[BFS|BFSes]]. The hobbits, expecting trouble, had slept elsewhere and left bolsters in their beds.
* ''[[Cthulhu Mythos|The Shadow Over Innsmouth]]'' has the character managing to escape a room ransack. Of course, rather than his mattress, they were planning on cutting open ''him''...
* Played with in ''Hard-boiled Wonderland''. Two men deliberately break into the [[The All
* [[James Bond]]'s hotel room in ''[[Casino Royale (Literature)|Casino Royale]]'' is ransacked by [[Mooks]] looking for a cheque. They don't find it because {{spoiler|he's hidden it behind the room number - on the ''outside'' of the door}}.
* In one ''Nick Carter Killmaster'' novel, the title character actually breaks the fourth wall concerning a search, telling people how James Bond ruined the "hair on the doorjam" technique, that he now used a new one, and that we were crazy if we thought he was going to reveal it in a lousy 95 cent paperback.
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