You're dead,' was spelled out in large letters clumsily cut from a glossy magazine.

Or a special registered 'stant mail letter, no name signed, letters cut from homeopapes.

There were letters cut in the wax.

In the ransom-note style with letters cut out of magazines.

It is a large public cipher puzzle with letters cut out of metal.

She's got the cutout pages of that book, and can go on using letters and words cut out of them.

The words on it had been composed from letters cut out of the newspaper.

They both looked at it hard and, as you might have expected, the letters cut in the stone were strange.

It is like reading the pasted-together words of a ransom note, their letters cut from newspaper headlines.

Holmes says that the note had been composed largely of letters cut from The Times, probably in a hotel, judging by other clues.