1.   As the bribe would hardly benefit a dead man, not surprisingly the offer was refused.

2.   At first Wexford felt a curious distaste and then he thought about the dead man and what he knew of him.

3.   But dead men paid no ransoms.

4.   However, there was no attempt to exonerate the reputation of the dead man.

5.   I recall... the shocking distension and protrusion of the eyeballs of dead men and dead horses.

6.   In the Huatulco morgue, the dead men remain unidentified, and their feet provide only cryptic clues about the rebels.

7.   It was hinged on top and it swung back, and I caught the scent of the dead man in the bathtub.

8.   It was the only way a dead man could be found in the tall elephant grass.

9.   No doubt the dead man had returned in an unsuccessful attempt to save his friend from a similar fate.