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* FatAndSkinny: The skinny one.
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* FatAndSkinny: The skinny one.one when pretty much next to anybody, but especially next to Lugg.
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-->Marlowe Lobbett: "I say, do you always talk like this?"
-->Mr. Campion: "Almost always. People get used to it in time. I can't help it, it's a sort of affliction, like stammering or a hammer toe. My friends pretend they don't notice it."
-->Mr. Campion: "Almost always. People get used to it in time. I can't help it, it's a sort of affliction, like stammering or a hammer toe. My friends pretend they don't notice it."
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->'''Mr. Albert Campion'''
->''Coups neatly executed.''
->'' Nothing sordid, vulgar, or plebeian.''
->'' Deserving cases preferred.''
->''Police no object.''
->''Coups neatly executed.''
->'' Nothing sordid, vulgar, or plebeian.''
->'' Deserving cases preferred.''
->''Police no object.''
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Tropes cannot be averted/subverted/whatever \"heavily\"
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* HollywoodAtheist: Heavily averted.
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* HollywoodAtheist: Heavily averted.Averted.
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* AuthorAvatar: The short story "A Border-Line Case" is essentially a conversation between Campion, a police detective (I forget which one), and the {{Narrator}}, whom the others call Margery.
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* WrenchWench: Is extremely good at fixing, designing, and building mechanical things.
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* WrenchWench: Is extremely good at fixing, designing, and building mechanical things.
things. She is actually the chief airplane designer at Alandell Aeronautics and prefers getting her hands in actually assembling the engines.
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* SingleWomanSeeksGoodMan: While not ugly, Mr. Campion is not well known for having good looks; Amanda fell in love with his intelligence, wit, humour, and his dedication to helping others.
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* SingleWomanSeeksGoodMan: While not ugly, Mr. Campion is not well known for having good looks; the most handsome man; Amanda fell in love with his intelligence, wit, humour, and his dedication to helping others.
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Albert Campion is the protagonist of a series of novels by Margery Allingham; outwardly a RichIdiotWithNoDayJob but in reality a GentlemanAdventurer [[WeHelpTheHelpless who is willing to sell his skills to anyone in trouble]].
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Albert Campion is the protagonist of a series of novels by Margery Allingham; outwardly a RichIdiotWithNoDayJob but in reality a GentlemanAdventurer [[WeHelpTheHelpless who is willing to sell his skills to anyone in trouble]].
trouble]]. Aside from his enquiring mind and deductive abilities, his main attributes are his incredible range and depth of contacts, ranging from low class criminals up to the Chief Constables of a number of police forces and his ability to insinuate himself anywhere and get along with pretty much anybody.
He was assisted on most of his adventurers by Magersfontein Lugg — a burglar turned valet.
He was assisted on most of his adventurers by Magersfontein Lugg — a burglar turned valet.
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* ShoutOut: In "Police At the Funeral" Campion can't resist wearing a [[SherlockHolmes deerstalker cap]] to impress a client and jokes around with Stanislaus Oates by pretending to deduce all about someone from the sound of their footsteps.
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* BrokenMessiah: Campion when seriously contemplating ignoring his ideals, [[spoiler: i.e. seriously contemplating pointing the authorities toward his client so he could steal the man's wife,]] even falling into a HeroicBSOD and putting on some pretty thick JadeColoredGlasses, but [[HesBack he's brought back to himself]] in the next book via LoveRedeems.
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* HeroicBSOD: Campion has a case of this, an extreme case of JadeColoredGlasses, and is tripping on a massive guilt trip after seriously contemplating ignoring his ideals [[spoiler: i.e. seriously contemplating pointing the authorities toward his client so he could steal the man's wife]] but [[HesBack he's brought back to himself]] in the next book via LoveRedeems.
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* LoveTriangle: Crops up a few times and is generally written in a contemptuous fashion so the reader doesn't sympathize with those involved. Most notably the one between Campion, his client, and his client's wife (see HeroicBSOD for how this ends up affecting Campion) in "Dancers in Mourning", and the one between Campion's sister, Amanda's boss, and an actress in "The Fashion in Shrouds" (which tends towards the PsychoticLoveTriangle end of things) against which the non-possessive and rather sweet romance of Campion and Amanda is juxtaposed.
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* LoveTriangle: Crops up a few times and is generally written in a contemptuous fashion so the reader doesn't sympathize with those involved. Most notably the one between Campion, his client, and his client's wife (see HeroicBSOD BrokenMessiah for how this ends up affecting Campion) in "Dancers in Mourning", and the one between Campion's sister, Amanda's boss, and an actress in "The Fashion in Shrouds" (which tends towards the PsychoticLoveTriangle end of things) against which the non-possessive and rather sweet romance of Campion and Amanda is juxtaposed.
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* CloudCuckooLander: Richie Barnabas. Canon Avril is a mild one. Gilbert Whippet [[spoiler: appears to be one, but is actually more a case of BrilliantButLazy and SmarterThanYouLook.]]
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* CloudCuckooLander: {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Richie Barnabas. Canon Avril is a mild one. Gilbert Whippet [[spoiler: appears to be one, but is actually more a case of BrilliantButLazy and SmarterThanYouLook.]]
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* BreakTheCutie: One of the early chapters in ''Coroner's Pidgin'' mentions how, because of what he saw in WorldWarTwo, he'll never be quite as carefree again. Sadly, this was TruthInTelevision for a lot of people who saw service.
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* BreakTheCutie: One of the early chapters in ''Coroner's Pidgin'' mentions how, because of what he saw in WorldWarTwo, he'll never be quite as carefree again. Sadly, this was TruthInTelevision for a lot of people who saw service.
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* [[ActionMom Badass Mom]]: After Rupert is born she's still just as feisty and brave, even going so far as to try to get a look at someone who is breaking into a house that she suspects is the serial killer she and Campion are after so she can identify him.
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* HeroicSelfDeprecation: Doesn't express it too much, but you find out when he writes one of his adventures himself (despite doing his best to not spoil the story with any 'damned modesty' since he was quite 'brilliant in it') that he's actually very critical of himself, doesn't see himself as a hero, and tends to get hung up on any perceived failures or mistakes he makes.
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* BassoProfundo: In contrast to Campion's tenor voice and fast-paced chatter, Lugg has a very, very deep, sepulchral voice.
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* CloudcuckoolandersMinder: He likes to make out that he's this in regards to Campion.
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* OnlySaneMan: Subverted. Lugg thinks he's this most of the time, but he's just as quirky and crazy as Campion.
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* FunWithAcronyms / PunnyName: Roland Isidore Peters [[spoiler: the victim in "Case of the Late Pig" who faked his death once and then made trouble in a small town, then was murdered and his body stolen]]. Now go back and read his initials again.
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* PunnyName / FunWithAcronyms: Roland Isidore Peters [[spoiler: the victim in "Case of the Late Pig" who faked his death once and then made trouble in a small town, then was murdered and his body stolen]].
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* PunnyName / FunWithAcronyms: Roland Isidore Peters [[spoiler: the victim in "Case of the Late Pig" who faked his death once and then made trouble in a small town, then was murdered and his body stolen]]. PunnyName: [[SmugSnake Max Fustian]]
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* SmugSnake: [[spoiler: Max Fustian]]
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* QuintissentialBritishGentleman
QuintessentialBritishGentleman
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* BestFriendsInLaw: Becomes this with Campion after Campion marries Amanda.
* IdleRich: Except for when Campion recruits him for a job/mission.
* NotWithThemForTheMoney: With his wife, who became pretty fantastically rich at the end of the adventure in which he met her.
* BestFriendsInLaw: Becomes this with Campion after Campion marries Amanda.
* IdleRich: Except for when Campion recruits him for a job/mission.
* NotWithThemForTheMoney: With his wife, who became pretty fantastically rich at the end of the adventure in which he met her.
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* BestFriendsInLaw: Becomes this with Campion after Campion marries Amanda.
* IdleRich: Except for when Campion recruits him for a job/mission.
* NotWithThemForTheMoney: With his wife, who became pretty fantastically rich at the end of the adventure in which he met her.
* QuintissentialBritishGentleman
* BestFriendsInLaw: Becomes this with Campion after Campion marries Amanda.
* IdleRich: Except for when Campion recruits him for a job/mission.
* NotWithThemForTheMoney: With his wife, who became pretty fantastically rich at the end of the adventure in which he met her.
* QuintissentialBritishGentleman
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!!Augustus "Guffy" Randall
* BestFriendsInLaw: Becomes this with Campion after Campion marries Amanda.
* IdleRich: Except for when Campion recruits him for a job/mission.
* NotWithThemForTheMoney: With his wife, who became pretty fantastically rich at the end of the adventure in which he met her.
* BestFriendsInLaw: Becomes this with Campion after Campion marries Amanda.
* IdleRich: Except for when Campion recruits him for a job/mission.
* NotWithThemForTheMoney: With his wife, who became pretty fantastically rich at the end of the adventure in which he met her.
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* [[spoiler: TheChessmaster: He manipulated Campion into getting into the Pig Peter's case so he didn't have to pay Campion.]]
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* ComplexityAddiction: To put it mildly.
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* TheNondescript: Campion says about Whippet, "Vagueness is not so much his characteristic as his entity. I don't know what he looks like, except that presumably he has a face, since it would be an omission that I should have been certain to observe."
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* DoNotCallMePaul: His real name is Rudolph, and he hates it and has done his very best to make people forget it.
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* DoNotCallMePaul: EmbarrassingFirstName: His real name is Rudolph, [[spoiler: Rudolph]], and he hates it and has done his very best to make people forget it.it, requiring he be called "Albert" at least as far back as college if not before then.
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* IHaveManyNames: Campion has used many pseudonyms; even 'Albert Campion' itself is a pseudonym. (It's eventually revealed that his first name is Rudolph, and implied, [[ShrugOfGod but never outright stated]], that he is really the bastard son of King George V.)
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* IHaveManyNames: Campion has used many pseudonyms; even 'Albert Campion' itself is a pseudonym. (It's eventually revealed that his first name is Rudolph, [[spoiler: Rudolph]], and implied, [[ShrugOfGod but never outright stated]], that he is really the bastard son of King George V.)
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* MotorMouth: In the earlier books he often goes into long complicated jokes or making up a long string of funnies on the fly, often resulting in a pre-emptive or mid-sentence collective "Shut Up!" from whatever group of people he's with even if they do respect him and know he's more than he appears.
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* SadClownSadClown: Often uses funnies to relieve the stress of situations and hide his inner workings.
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* GenkiGirl: In her first appearance and the only person who can keep up with her is Campion (or, rather, they're the only ones who can keep up with each other); she slows down a bit in the later novels.
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* WrenchWench: Is extremely good at fixing, designing, and building mechanical things.
