crank letter

At least, it isn't the usual kind of crank letter.

One crank letter is easy to dismiss, but six makes me a bit uneasy.

Hell, anybody could sit down and write a crank letter "Actually, no."

I can tell the difference between an isolated crank letter and the outbreak of a revolution.

I was just wondering if your husband ever received any crank letters.'

It didn't get past his second or third secretary because it was obviously a crank letter.

When it got bad enough, he knew he'd quit The community was helping him to this decision - crank letters, vicious phone calls.

She left the room, and Dortmunder looked at the pages in his hand as though they were an anonymous crank letter.

Monty placed it in a file thick with ten years accumulation of crank letters.

I suggest that any crank letters - no matter how apparently innocuous - should be forwarded to the police.

Others went to world leaders, where they were treated as crank letters or were bucked along to specialists.

Chris, suppose this isn't a crank letter?

She also had a pile of crank letters and telephone messages, including three from Gerald Sithing.

To be honest, I thought it must be one of those crank letters Kit tells me he gets regularly.

This is no crank letter.

It's just a crank letter.

Some are stupid, ignorant, almost illiterate men who confine their activities to sending "crank letters" to prominent scientists.

It was published by a tabloid newspaper as a sort of gag--a strange crank letter.

All those crank letters.

Con Edison employment records were reviewed, but there were hundreds of other leads, tips and crank letters to be followed up on.

The pilot may have been a deranged ex-kamikaze officer who had written a threatening letter a week before, a crank letter not taken seriously.

-a crank letter.

Cards, flowers and "all sorts of messages of support" have been mailed, McGuiness said, including some "crank letters."

He thought they were crank letters and he didn't want to be seen to be publicity-seeking after Drew Shand's murder.