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* HopeSpot: In the beginning ''London Bridges'', Geoffrey Shafer picks up a young streetwalker, named Marie, and the audience can already guess what he will do [[SerialKiller based off his track record]]. He is then ambushed by The Wolf and his men who thank Marie for drawing Geoffrey out, [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness and then promptly kill her]].
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* HopeSpot: In the beginning ''London Bridges'', Bridges'' Geoffrey Shafer picks up a young streetwalker, streetwalker named Marie, and the audience can already guess what he will do [[SerialKiller based off his track record]]. He is then ambushed by The Wolf and his men who thank Marie for drawing Geoffrey out, out [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness and then promptly kill her]].
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** In ''Along Came A Spider'' [[spoiler: Mike Devine and Charley Chakely, the Secret Service agents in charge of protecting Maggie Rose and Michael, and Jezzie Flannagan, the head of the children's Secret Service detail; actually arranged the kidnapping to take the ransom money for themselves]].
** In ''Kiss The Girls'' [[spoiler:Alex suspects Detective Davey Sikes to be Casanova, but it turns out to be his partner Nick Ruskin]].
** ''Rose Are Red'':
*** The third robbery crew the Mastermind hires are detectives.
*** The Mastermind himself turns out to be [[spoiler:FBI Agent Kyle Craig]].
** In ''Along Came A Spider'' [[spoiler: Mike Devine and Charley Chakely, the Secret Service agents in charge of protecting Maggie Rose and Michael, and Jezzie Flannagan, the head of the children's Secret Service detail; actually arranged the kidnapping to take the ransom money for themselves]].
** In ''Kiss The Girls'' [[spoiler:Alex suspects Detective Davey Sikes to be Casanova, but it turns out to be his partner Nick Ruskin]].
** ''Rose Are Red'':
*** The third robbery crew the Mastermind hires are detectives.
*** The Mastermind himself turns out to be [[spoiler:FBI Agent Kyle Craig]].
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* DiplomaticImmunity: In ''Pop Goes the Weasel'', Geoffrey Shafer is a British diplomat who (and ex-Special Forces assassin) abuses this to get away with murder. Although his government eventually waives the immunity and allows him to be put on trial, [[spoiler:his assertion of the immunity during his arrest leads to the most damning evidence being suppressed, and he is acquitted]].
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* DiplomaticImmunity: DiplomaticImpunity: In ''Pop Goes the Weasel'', Geoffrey Shafer is a British diplomat who (and ex-Special Forces assassin) abuses this to get away with murder. Although his government eventually waives the immunity and allows him to be put on trial, [[spoiler:his assertion of the immunity during his arrest leads to the most damning evidence being suppressed, and he is acquitted]].
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* FlayedAlive: In the end of ''Cat And Mouse'' [[spoiler:Thomas Pierce aka Mr. Smith does this to himself]].
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* DiplomaticImmunity: In ''Pop Goes the Weasel'', Geoffrey Shafer is a British diplomat who (and ex-Special Forces assassin) abuses this to get away with murder. Although his government eventually waives the immunity and allows him to be put on trial, [[spoiler:his assertion of the immunity during his arrest leads to the most damning evidence being suppressed, and he is acquitted]].
* HopeSpot: In the beginning ''London Bridges'', Geoffrey Shafer picks up a young streetwalker, named Marie, and the audience can already guess what he will do [[SerialKiller based off his track record]]. He is then ambushed by The Wolf and his men who thank Marie for drawing Geoffrey out, [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness and then promptly kill her]].
* ObfuscatingDisability: In the ''Literature/AlexCross'' novel ''London Bridges'', Geoffrey Shafer uses a wheelchair he does not need as part of his disguise.
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** In the end [[spoiler: "The Wolf" AKA Pasha Sorokin is killed by another criminal going by the alias "The Wolf"]].
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* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness
** The Mastermind does this to his first to robbery crews in ''Roses Are Red''.
** In the beginning ''London Bridges'', The Wolf and his men do this to young streetwalker named Marie after she helps them draw out Geoffrey Shafer.
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness
** The Mastermind does this to his first to robbery crews in ''Roses Are Red''.
** In the beginning ''London Bridges'', The Wolf and his men do this to young streetwalker named Marie after she helps them draw out Geoffrey Shafer.
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** TheButcher from ''Cross'': [[spoiler:his father molested him.]]
** TheButcher from ''Cross'': [[spoiler:his father molested him.]]
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** Gary Murphy/Soneji: [[spoiler:he was abused by his father and stepmother when he was young.]]
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** TheButcher from ''Cross'': [[spoiler:his father molestedhim.]]him]].
** TheButcher from ''Cross'': [[spoiler:his father molested
* NoKillLikeOverkill: In the end of ''Big Bad Wolf'' [[spoiler: Pasha Sorokin]] is shot with a rocket launcher.
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* WidowerHero: Cross and Sampson are also prone to losing their [[ReallyGetsAround many]] wives over the course of the books.
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* YouHaveFailedMe: Happens twice in ''Big Bad Wolf'':
** "The Wolf" does this to the kipnapper duo, after they left too many witnesses.
** In the end [[spoiler: "The Wolf" AKA Pasha Sorokin is killed by another criminal going by the alias "The Wolf"]].
* YouHaveFailedMe: Happens twice in ''Big Bad Wolf'':
** "The Wolf" does this to the kipnapper duo, after they left too many witnesses.
** In the end [[spoiler: "The Wolf" AKA Pasha Sorokin is killed by another criminal going by the alias "The Wolf"]].
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* HollywoodHistory: ''Alex Cross's Trial''. The book is about a white attorney, Ben Corbett, coming to his hometown of Eudora, Mississippi and investigating lynchings and the Klan at the command of President Teddy Roosevelt, putting the book's date range between September 14, 1901 and March 4, 1909. The book fairly drips with examples of this trope. Here are a few:
** In a town dominated by the Klan (which had been officially disbanded since around 1877 and which didn't exist in its modern form until 1915, but that's [[ArtisticLicenseHistory another issue]]) and in which the sheriff is a sincere member of the Klan, two "White Raiders" who have come to lynch an old black man and his granddaughter die--one by falling off the roof and the other by being stabbed in the back by the granddaughter. The granddaughter is not only not convicted of murder or manslaughter--she never even gets ARRESTED. It seems that Patterson forgot that self-defense is a plea the defendant makes in court, not an excuse for the cops not to arrest someone, and racist, Klan member cops would be especially unlikely not to.
** Ben Corbett's father is appointed judge in the trial of the three surviving Raiders (yes, they were arrested by the sheriff who's a Klansman and who believes in what they're doing). This makes no sense, as Judge Corbett seems pretty low on the judicial hierarchy. Corbett tries traffic cases. And small claims cases between neighbors. This is a case of attempted murder. Newsflash, Patterson: Corbett is a judge of a small-town CIVIL court, not the judge of a county or state CRIMINAL court. '''Corbett's court doesn't have jurisdiction.'''
** The sheriff tells another cop to read the surviving Raiders their rights. The concept of the Miranda rights didn't come into existence until the Supreme Court decision in the case of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miranda_v._Arizona Miranda v. Arizona (1966)]]. It's somewhere between 1901 and 1909. Miranda rights don't EXIST yet; Ernesto Miranda himself wouldn't even be born until the '40s.
** Ben, mid-trial, gets an idea: he and one of his friends will break into the photography offices of Scooter Williams, who takes pictures of every single lynching, and steal the photos and the negatives. Then he will bring the stolen pictures into court as evidence. This ignores several facts:
** Stolen pictures may be inadmissible. This may or may not be a handicap: Most states didn't have a rule against this before Mapp v. Ohio, and even now it only applies to police or people acting as their agents. So they would be liable for burglary and theft, but the pictures could still be admitted.
** Even if they weren't stolen, the grisly pictures are horrible, yes, and they are certainly proof that lynching ''exists,'' which is what Roosevelt wanted Ben to find...but they aren't evidence of anything in ''this'' case. They DO prove that the men who went to the Crosses' house had ''attended'' lynchings. But they don't prove that these men went to the Crosses' to ''commit'' a lynching OR that they attacked the Crosses with intent to commit murder, and any first-year law student would argue as much...
** ...If the pictures weren't considered prejudicial to the jury and thrown out of the evidence list during preparations for the trial.
** And since the evidence lists are prepared before trial and are seen by attorneys for both sides, it's unlikely that the judge would accept new evidence mid-trial that the other side hadn't seen--even if the evidence was obtained legally AND proved that the defendants were guilty.[[note]]Before the 1920s, courts were a lot less picky about lawyers following these rules, even though the basic ruling had been around since 1789.[[/note]]
** Moody Cross (the aforementioned granddaughter and Alex Cross's ancestor) is called to the stand and perjures herself by saying that yes, the Raiders had a search warrant and she agreed to let them in, and my goodness, she doesn't know WHY they attacked after that. Ben thinks that this changes everything because now the official story isn't that the Crosses fought men who were performing their legal duty, but that the Crosses acted like good citizens and admitted the representatives of the law, who then attacked them. He seems unaware that:
** a) the stories the Crosses told and that the Raiders told would have been recorded in the briefs both sides filed with the court, so changing the story now would raise all kinds of questions about "Why are you changing your story? Were you lying then or are you lying now?"; and
** b) there is STILL no physical evidence that proves that the Raiders attacked the Crosses and not the Crosses the Raiders.
** When it's time for closing arguments, Jonah Curtis (the prosecutor) tells Ben to make the closing speech. Never mind that Ben isn't listed as an attorney for the prosecution, but as a prosecution ''witness'', and therefore has no right to make the speech.
** In a town dominated by the Klan (which had been officially disbanded since around 1877 and which didn't exist in its modern form until 1915, but that's [[ArtisticLicenseHistory another issue]]) and in which the sheriff is a sincere member of the Klan, two "White Raiders" who have come to lynch an old black man and his granddaughter die--one by falling off the roof and the other by being stabbed in the back by the granddaughter. The granddaughter is not only not convicted of murder or manslaughter--she never even gets ARRESTED. It seems that Patterson forgot that self-defense is a plea the defendant makes in court, not an excuse for the cops not to arrest someone, and racist, Klan member cops would be especially unlikely not to.
** Ben Corbett's father is appointed judge in the trial of the three surviving Raiders (yes, they were arrested by the sheriff who's a Klansman and who believes in what they're doing). This makes no sense, as Judge Corbett seems pretty low on the judicial hierarchy. Corbett tries traffic cases. And small claims cases between neighbors. This is a case of attempted murder. Newsflash, Patterson: Corbett is a judge of a small-town CIVIL court, not the judge of a county or state CRIMINAL court. '''Corbett's court doesn't have jurisdiction.'''
** The sheriff tells another cop to read the surviving Raiders their rights. The concept of the Miranda rights didn't come into existence until the Supreme Court decision in the case of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miranda_v._Arizona Miranda v. Arizona (1966)]]. It's somewhere between 1901 and 1909. Miranda rights don't EXIST yet; Ernesto Miranda himself wouldn't even be born until the '40s.
** Ben, mid-trial, gets an idea: he and one of his friends will break into the photography offices of Scooter Williams, who takes pictures of every single lynching, and steal the photos and the negatives. Then he will bring the stolen pictures into court as evidence. This ignores several facts:
** Stolen pictures may be inadmissible. This may or may not be a handicap: Most states didn't have a rule against this before Mapp v. Ohio, and even now it only applies to police or people acting as their agents. So they would be liable for burglary and theft, but the pictures could still be admitted.
** Even if they weren't stolen, the grisly pictures are horrible, yes, and they are certainly proof that lynching ''exists,'' which is what Roosevelt wanted Ben to find...but they aren't evidence of anything in ''this'' case. They DO prove that the men who went to the Crosses' house had ''attended'' lynchings. But they don't prove that these men went to the Crosses' to ''commit'' a lynching OR that they attacked the Crosses with intent to commit murder, and any first-year law student would argue as much...
** ...If the pictures weren't considered prejudicial to the jury and thrown out of the evidence list during preparations for the trial.
** And since the evidence lists are prepared before trial and are seen by attorneys for both sides, it's unlikely that the judge would accept new evidence mid-trial that the other side hadn't seen--even if the evidence was obtained legally AND proved that the defendants were guilty.[[note]]Before the 1920s, courts were a lot less picky about lawyers following these rules, even though the basic ruling had been around since 1789.[[/note]]
** Moody Cross (the aforementioned granddaughter and Alex Cross's ancestor) is called to the stand and perjures herself by saying that yes, the Raiders had a search warrant and she agreed to let them in, and my goodness, she doesn't know WHY they attacked after that. Ben thinks that this changes everything because now the official story isn't that the Crosses fought men who were performing their legal duty, but that the Crosses acted like good citizens and admitted the representatives of the law, who then attacked them. He seems unaware that:
** a) the stories the Crosses told and that the Raiders told would have been recorded in the briefs both sides filed with the court, so changing the story now would raise all kinds of questions about "Why are you changing your story? Were you lying then or are you lying now?"; and
** b) there is STILL no physical evidence that proves that the Raiders attacked the Crosses and not the Crosses the Raiders.
** When it's time for closing arguments, Jonah Curtis (the prosecutor) tells Ben to make the closing speech. Never mind that Ben isn't listed as an attorney for the prosecution, but as a prosecution ''witness'', and therefore has no right to make the speech.
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** Special mention must be made of the treatment of black civil rights leaders in this book. Leaders of the time, like [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W.E.B._DuBois W.E.B. Du Bois]] and [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ida_Wells-Barnett Ida Wells-Barnett]], are mentioned, but the book doesn't say who they are or what they did. Consequently, all we have are names and no context. And in the end, they're reduced to leading a group of blacks through town, chanting. Although it's never stated, it's implied that they're doing this because that's what civil rights leaders ''do''. It's not like they found things like the [[http://www.naacp.org/content/main/ NAACP]] (which Du Bois did in 1909) or work as journalists for Chicago papers and write books and give lectures throughout Europe about lynching (which Wells-Barnett did starting in 1893).* BatterUp: The Sojourner Truth School killer used a cut off, tape reinforced bat to kill his victims.
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** Special mention must be made of the treatment of black civil rights leaders in this book. Leaders of the time, like [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W.E.B._DuBois W.E.B. Du Bois]] and [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ida_Wells-Barnett Ida Wells-Barnett]], are mentioned, but the book doesn't say who they are or what they did. Consequently, all we have are names and no context. And in the end, they're reduced to leading a group of blacks through town, chanting. Although it's never stated, it's implied that they're doing this because that's what civil rights leaders ''do''. It's not like they found things like the [[http://www.naacp.org/content/main/ NAACP]] (which Du Bois did in 1909) or work as journalists for Chicago papers and write books and give lectures throughout Europe about lynching (which Wells-Barnett did starting in 1893).1893).
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* ArtisticLicenseLaw: ''Alex Cross's Trial'' is a prime example of this. In fact, it could be the poster child for this trope.
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* ArtisticLicenseLaw: ArtisticLicenseHistory: ''Alex Cross's Trial'' Trial''. This book, set when Teddy Roosevelt was president (i.e., between September 14, 1901 and March 4, 1909) and which claims to be historically accurate, makes the following mistakes:
** The book focuses on lynchings taking place in the South, stressing that this is unusual and is not happening anywhere else, even though lynchings have taken place EVERYWHERE in America--the South, the Midwest, the West and yes, in the North.
** Roosevelt sends the white hero, Ben Corbett to his hometown of Eudora, Mississippi and report on lynchings and Klan activities. The modern version of the Klan was not founded till 1915, in Georgia, and wasn't any kind of a really big deal until after World War I. The Reconstruction Klan was dissolved after ca. 1877. (Patterson admits that it had been disbanded officially, but maintains that it existed at the time of the story (possible) and that its impact was so great as to merit Presidential investigation (not supported by historical record)).
** Three "White Raiders" (read: Klansmen) are arrested ([[LogicalFallacies by a sheriff who's a Klansman and who believes in what they're doing]]) and Roosevelt sends one Jonah Curtis to prosecute the case. Jonah is aprime example of this. In fact, it could be black man. It's not that Jonah's black and practicing law; the poster child first African-American to be admitted to a state bar was [[http://www.duhaime.org/LawMuseum/LawArticle-467/Allen-Macon-1816-1894.aspx Macon Bolling Allen]] in July 1844. The problem is that Jonah is a black man who, between 1901 and 1909, apparently works for the federal government and is recognized by the state of Mississippi as an attorney. To find a situation that's more or less analogous, the first black man to serve as an assistant U.S. Attorney in Mississippi since Reconstruction was [[http://www.mssc.state.ms.us/appellate_courts/coa/bios/judgeirving.html Tyree Irving]]. He was hired by the Northern District of Mississippi in 1978.
** Roosevelt claims that the above lawsuit will ensure him the black vote for all time. I guess Patterson hasn't heard of common ways that white people of the period kept blacks and other minorities from voting. Like, oh, [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poll_tax the poll tax]] and [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literacy_test literacy tests]].
** At the end of the book, Ben takes Moody Cross (Alex's ancestor) into Eudora, walking hand in hand with her and walking into restaurants and stores demanding that they be served--and actually expecting the store owners to comply. Because it's not like segregation and Jim Crow laws existed, or that an attorney would know about either.
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book. Leaders of the time, like [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W.E.B._DuBois W.E.B. Du Bois]] and [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ida_Wells-Barnett Ida Wells-Barnett]], are mentioned, but the book doesn't say who they are or what they did. Consequently, all we have are names and no context. And in the end, they're reduced to leading a group of blacks through town, chanting. Although it's never stated, it's implied that they're doing this because that's what civil rights leaders ''do''. It's not like they found things like the [[http://www.naacp.org/content/main/ NAACP]] (which Du Bois did in 1909) or work as journalists for Chicago papers and write books and give lectures throughout Europe about lynching (which Wells-Barnett did starting in 1893).* BatterUp: The Sojourner Truth School killer used a cut off, tape reinforced bat to kill his victims.
** The book focuses on lynchings taking place in the South, stressing that this is unusual and is not happening anywhere else, even though lynchings have taken place EVERYWHERE in America--the South, the Midwest, the West and yes, in the North.
** Roosevelt sends the white hero, Ben Corbett to his hometown of Eudora, Mississippi and report on lynchings and Klan activities. The modern version of the Klan was not founded till 1915, in Georgia, and wasn't any kind of a really big deal until after World War I. The Reconstruction Klan was dissolved after ca. 1877. (Patterson admits that it had been disbanded officially, but maintains that it existed at the time of the story (possible) and that its impact was so great as to merit Presidential investigation (not supported by historical record)).
** Three "White Raiders" (read: Klansmen) are arrested ([[LogicalFallacies by a sheriff who's a Klansman and who believes in what they're doing]]) and Roosevelt sends one Jonah Curtis to prosecute the case. Jonah is a
** Roosevelt claims that the above lawsuit will ensure him the black vote for all time. I guess Patterson hasn't heard of common ways that white people of the period kept blacks and other minorities from voting. Like, oh, [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poll_tax the poll tax]] and [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literacy_test literacy tests]].
** At the end of the book, Ben takes Moody Cross (Alex's ancestor) into Eudora, walking hand in hand with her and walking into restaurants and stores demanding that they be served--and actually expecting the store owners to comply. Because it's not like segregation and Jim Crow laws existed, or that an attorney would know about either.
** Special mention must be made of the treatment of black civil rights leaders in this
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* AndNowForSomeoneCompletelyDifferent: In ''Cat and Mouse'' Alex Cross gets knocked unconscious and taken to the hospital. The next chapter starts with, Thomas Pierce'' Pierce a brand new narrator, who was introduced earlier, while we're still reeling from the removal of Cross. [[spoiler:And he [[spoiler:He turns out to be, Mr. Smith, the second serial killer of the book, the same one he investigated.]]
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* FaceHeelTurn: [[spoiler:Kyle Craig.]]
* TheMole: In ''Rose Are Red'' the Mastermind turns out to be [[spoiler:FBI Agent Kyle Craig. He also helped out Casanova and the Gentleman Caller during ''Kiss The Girls'']].
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* AndNowForSomeoneCompletelyDifferent: In ''Cat and Mouse'' Alex Cross gets knocked unconscious and taken to the hospital. The next chapter starts with, Thomas Pierce'' a brand new narrator, who was introduced earlier, while we're still reeling from the removal of Cross. [[spoiler:And he turns out to be, Mr. Sith, Smith, the second serial killer of the book, the same one he investigated.]]
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* AndNowForSomeoneCompletelyDifferent: In ''Cat and Mouse'' Alex Cross gets knocked unconscious and taken to the hospital. The next chapter starts with, Thomas Pierce'' a brand new narrator, who was introduced earlier, while we're still reeling from the removal of Cross. [[spoiler:And he turns out to be, Mr. Sith, the second serial killer of the book, the same one he investigated.]]
* ArtisticLicenseLaw: ''Alex Cross's Trial'' is a prime example of this. In fact, it could be the poster child for this trope.
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* CombatPragmatist: ''Kiss the Girls'' has a woman who takes self-defense classes, with the GroinAttack recommended. [[spoiler:When Casanova abducts her, she kicks him in the nuts. Unfortunately, Casanova was wearing protection. Because he had been watching her go to her self-defense classes.]]
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* MadnessMantra: In ''Cat and Mouse'', [[spoiler:I MURDERED ISABELLA CALAIS. AND I CAN'T STOP THE KILLING. The first sentence is spelled out in his victims' initials. The second would have been.]]
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* MadnessMantra: In ''Cat and Mouse'', [[spoiler:I [[spoiler:when Thomas Pierce is exposed as Mr. Smith, he starts repeating: I MURDERED ISABELLA CALAIS. CALAIS AND I CAN'T STOP THE KILLING. The first sentence is spelled out in his victims' initials. The second would have been.]]
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* WidowerHero: Cross and Sampson are also prone to losing their [[ReallyGetsAround many]] wives over the course of the books.
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* WidowerHero: Cross and Sampson are also prone to losing their [[ReallyGetsAround many]] wives over the course of the books.
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* OurVampiresAreDifferent: The vampire cult in ''Violets Are Blue'' is more like the [[UsefulNotes/CharlesManson Manson Family Family]] than a group of vampires. Then again it's not exactly common for real vampires to appear in police fiction.
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* WidowerHero: [[spoiler: Mike Bennett]].
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* WidowerHero: [[spoiler: Mike Bennett]].
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* ThePlan:''Four Blind Mice'' is so strange that [[spoiler:Neither Alex nor the contract killers figure out what the guy hiring them is doing.]]
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* MessageInABottle
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* SimilarlyNamedWorks: Well, characters. Do not confuse Rafe Khatchadorian with [[WeNeedToTalkAboutKevin Kevin Khatchadourian]].
* StealthPun: At no point in ''Sail'' is the phrase [[spoiler: "Dunne In"]] used.
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A detective in UsefulNotes/WashingtonDC. Three novels have been adapted for the big screen- ''Along Came A Spider'', ''KissTheGirls'' (where the character was played by MorganFreeman) and ''Film/AlexCross'' (based on ''Cross'' where he is played by TylerPerry) .
* AerithAndBob: Cross is just ''way'' too badass a last name.
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A detective in UsefulNotes/WashingtonDC.
* ''Along Came a Spider''
* ''Kiss the Girls''
* ''Jack & Jill''
* ''Cat and Mouse''
* ''Pop Goes the Weasel''
* ''Roses Are Red''
* ''Violets Are Blue''
* ''Four Blind Mice''
* ''The Big Bad Wolf''
* ''London Bridges''
* ''Mary, Mary''
* ''Cross''
* ''Double Cross''
* ''Cross Country''
* ''Alex Cross's Trial''
* ''I, Alex Cross''
* ''Cross Fire''
* ''Kill Alex Cross''
* ''Merry Christmas, Alex Cross''
* ''Alex Cross, Run''
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** Cross is just ''way'' too badass a last name.
* ''Along Came a Spider''
* ''Kiss the Girls''
* ''Jack & Jill''
* ''Cat and Mouse''
* ''Pop Goes the Weasel''
* ''Roses Are Red''
* ''Violets Are Blue''
* ''Four Blind Mice''
* ''The Big Bad Wolf''
* ''London Bridges''
* ''Mary, Mary''
* ''Cross''
* ''Double Cross''
* ''Cross Country''
* ''Alex Cross's Trial''
* ''I, Alex Cross''
* ''Cross Fire''
* ''Kill Alex Cross''
* ''Merry Christmas, Alex Cross''
* ''Alex Cross, Run''
Three novels have been adapted for the big
* ''Along Came A
* ''KissTheGirls'' (where the character was played by
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* NewPowersAsThePlotDemands: Happens in both ''Maximum Ride'' and the ''Daniel X'' series.
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: The celebrities taken hostage in ''Step on a Crack'', particularly the Britney Spears-clone.
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: The celebrities taken hostage in ''Step on a Crack'', particularly the Britney Spears-clone.
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* ''Alex Cross'' - A detective in UsefulNotes/WashingtonDC. Three novels have been adapted for the big screen- ''Along Came A Spider'', ''KissTheGirls'' (where the character was played by MorganFreeman) and ''Film/AlexCross'' (based on ''Cross'' where he is played by TylerPerry) .
* AerithAndBob: Cross is just ''way'' too badass a last name.
** Samson is also pretty badass a name.
* BestServedCold:
* BloodLust: Soneji in ''Cat and Mouse'' incorporates blood as a trademark.
* TheButcher: The hitman antagonist of ''Cross''.
* TheCasanova: The villain of ''Kiss the Girls'' is actually named Casanova, a criminal who builds a modern day harem of kidnapped women.
* DanBrowned: Cross's encounters with role-playing gamers and vampires/goths. Might be a case of Did Not Do the Research.
* DepravedBisexual: Gary Shafer aka the Weasel is implied to be one.
* DisabledSnarker: Jamie Grimm.
* EmbarrassingNickname: Although the embarrassing part is debatable, Sampson calls Cross "sugar".
* ExtrudedBookProduct
* FaceHeelTurn: [[spoiler:Kyle Craig.]]
* FreudianExcuse: Some of his villains have very painful reasons for what they do. Examples include:
** Gary Murphy/Soneji: [[spoiler:he was abused by his father and stepmother when he was young.]]
** TheButcher from ''Cross'': [[spoiler:his father molested him.]]
* GoryDiscretionShot: It's not uncommon for a chapter to end vaguely hinting at what has taken place. A particularly disturbing example from ''I, Alex Cross'' when the BigBad, Zeus, visits the sex club that he frequents and takes two girls to his private room. After binding and gagging the two girls, [[spoiler:he pulls out a taser gun and a pair of pliers]] before the chapter ends.
* IncrediblyLamePun: (In ''Cat and Mouse'' [[spoiler:Mr. Smith "pierced" Isabella's heart.]])
* HeterosexualLifePartners: Cross and Sampson
* IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming: At first children's rhymes, now with "cross" in the title. Still, if you can have a murder mystery titled ''Double Cross'', you should.
* TheLastDance: In ''Cat and Mouse,'' Gary Soneji, now dying of [=AIDS=], goes on one last frenzied rampage, killing everyone he feels the need to and dead set on murdering Cross.
* MadnessMantra: In ''Cat and Mouse'', [[spoiler:I MURDERED ISABELLA CALAIS. AND I CAN'T STOP THE KILLING. The first sentence is spelled out in his victims' initials. The second would have been.]]
* MessageInABottle
* MurderDotCom: The DC Audience Killer from ''Double Cross''.
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: The Butcher, The Tiger and the Wolf. Cross himself also goes by the nickname of The Dragon Slayer.
* NewPowersAsThePlotDemands: Happens in both ''Maximum Ride'' and the ''Daniel X'' series.
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: The celebrities taken hostage in ''Step on a Crack'', particularly the Britney Spears-clone.
* OurVampiresAreDifferent: The vampire cult in ''Violets Are Blue'' is more like the Manson Family than a group of vampires. Then again it's not exactly common for real vampires to appear in police fiction.
* RacistGrandma: Nana Mama does ''not'' trust white people.
* ReallyGetsAround: Whenever Cross or Sampson aren't [[ILetGwenStacyDie losing their wives]] to the job, they're romancing new ones.
* ScaryBlackMan: John Sampson. PlayedStraight when he's on the job, [[SubvertedTrope subverted]] when he isn't.
* SimilarlyNamedWorks: Well, characters. Do not confuse Rafe Khatchadorian with [[WeNeedToTalkAboutKevin Kevin Khatchadourian]].
* StealthPun: At no point in ''Sail'' is the phrase [[spoiler: "Dunne In"]] used.
* TortureCellar
* WidowerHero: [[spoiler: Mike Bennett]].
** Cross and Sampson are also prone to losing their [[ReallyGetsAround many]] wives over the course of the books.
* XanatosRoulette ''Four Blind Mice'' has a huge one. [[spoiler:Neither Alex nor the contract killers figure out what the guy hiring them is doing.]]
* YouFailHistoryForever: ''Alex Cross's Trial'' is a prime example of this. In fact, it could be the poster child for this trope.
* AerithAndBob: Cross is just ''way'' too badass a last name.
** Samson is also pretty badass a name.
* BestServedCold:
* BloodLust: Soneji in ''Cat and Mouse'' incorporates blood as a trademark.
* TheButcher: The hitman antagonist of ''Cross''.
* TheCasanova: The villain of ''Kiss the Girls'' is actually named Casanova, a criminal who builds a modern day harem of kidnapped women.
* DanBrowned: Cross's encounters with role-playing gamers and vampires/goths. Might be a case of Did Not Do the Research.
* DepravedBisexual: Gary Shafer aka the Weasel is implied to be one.
* DisabledSnarker: Jamie Grimm.
* EmbarrassingNickname: Although the embarrassing part is debatable, Sampson calls Cross "sugar".
* ExtrudedBookProduct
* FaceHeelTurn: [[spoiler:Kyle Craig.]]
* FreudianExcuse: Some of his villains have very painful reasons for what they do. Examples include:
** Gary Murphy/Soneji: [[spoiler:he was abused by his father and stepmother when he was young.]]
** TheButcher from ''Cross'': [[spoiler:his father molested him.]]
* GoryDiscretionShot: It's not uncommon for a chapter to end vaguely hinting at what has taken place. A particularly disturbing example from ''I, Alex Cross'' when the BigBad, Zeus, visits the sex club that he frequents and takes two girls to his private room. After binding and gagging the two girls, [[spoiler:he pulls out a taser gun and a pair of pliers]] before the chapter ends.
* IncrediblyLamePun: (In ''Cat and Mouse'' [[spoiler:Mr. Smith "pierced" Isabella's heart.]])
* HeterosexualLifePartners: Cross and Sampson
* IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming: At first children's rhymes, now with "cross" in the title. Still, if you can have a murder mystery titled ''Double Cross'', you should.
* TheLastDance: In ''Cat and Mouse,'' Gary Soneji, now dying of [=AIDS=], goes on one last frenzied rampage, killing everyone he feels the need to and dead set on murdering Cross.
* MadnessMantra: In ''Cat and Mouse'', [[spoiler:I MURDERED ISABELLA CALAIS. AND I CAN'T STOP THE KILLING. The first sentence is spelled out in his victims' initials. The second would have been.]]
* MessageInABottle
* MurderDotCom: The DC Audience Killer from ''Double Cross''.
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: The Butcher, The Tiger and the Wolf. Cross himself also goes by the nickname of The Dragon Slayer.
* NewPowersAsThePlotDemands: Happens in both ''Maximum Ride'' and the ''Daniel X'' series.
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: The celebrities taken hostage in ''Step on a Crack'', particularly the Britney Spears-clone.
* OurVampiresAreDifferent: The vampire cult in ''Violets Are Blue'' is more like the Manson Family than a group of vampires. Then again it's not exactly common for real vampires to appear in police fiction.
* RacistGrandma: Nana Mama does ''not'' trust white people.
* ReallyGetsAround: Whenever Cross or Sampson aren't [[ILetGwenStacyDie losing their wives]] to the job, they're romancing new ones.
* ScaryBlackMan: John Sampson. PlayedStraight when he's on the job, [[SubvertedTrope subverted]] when he isn't.
* SimilarlyNamedWorks: Well, characters. Do not confuse Rafe Khatchadorian with [[WeNeedToTalkAboutKevin Kevin Khatchadourian]].
* StealthPun: At no point in ''Sail'' is the phrase [[spoiler: "Dunne In"]] used.
* TortureCellar
* WidowerHero: [[spoiler: Mike Bennett]].
** Cross and Sampson are also prone to losing their [[ReallyGetsAround many]] wives over the course of the books.
* XanatosRoulette ''Four Blind Mice'' has a huge one. [[spoiler:Neither Alex nor the contract killers figure out what the guy hiring them is doing.]]
* YouFailHistoryForever: ''Alex Cross's Trial'' is a prime example of this. In fact, it could be the poster child for this trope.
