There's been a ghastly murder committed.

Two horrible, ghastly murders.

The major plot contrivance is a series of ghastly murders of men who have met women through a weekly personals column.

A ghastly murder.

A truly scary fight breaks out; there is a ghastly murder, a gruesome aftermath, all laid out in Mr. McEwan's cool, meticulous prose.

Before the dark events related by Euripides, she had already committed several ghastly murders, though always in the cause of Jason's career.

To run amuck and commit two ghastly murders?

It was murder, Mr. Flaxman, ghastly murder.

It is also true that she had committed several ghastly murders, though always in the cause of Jason's career.

Appropriately for one who spent lots of time in drafty castles and stately old homes, Hare passes along tales of ghastly murders, deaths foretold and restless ghosts.