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* ShoutOut: In addition to the many borrowed characters who are central to the plot, even ones who get a line or two at the most of description are often lifted from other works. Chapter one features C.F. Kane's mentor, Baron Maupertius (a mentioned but not seen character from Sherlock Holmes, described as having 'colossal schemes', here described as a 'colossus' and Basil Hawthorne (who painted Dorian Gray's portrait), mentioned by first name and explicitly identified as a homosexual. There are many, many more (including brief reference to Sibyl Vane, also from Picture of D.G.)
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It is not Irene who replaces the Phantom at the end; the narrator notes that she wouldn't have suited because she hates being tied down in one place.
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* {{Expy}}: Erik to Charlie and the Persian for John Bosley of ''CharliesAngels''. ''Series/CharliesAngels''.
** In the final chapter there's a throwaway gag about Kate hearing "Alexander's Ragtime Band" and predicting it will sink without a trace.
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* NeverBeHurtAgain: A downplayed example. Irene Adler (apparently referring to dealings with Sherlock Holmes and Professor Moriarty) is determined to never be used by another "mastermind" again, which is the reason she leaves the agency. [[spoiler: But she gets over it in time to replace Erik as the Phantom]]
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* LegionOfDoom: Charles Foster Kane assembles one in Act IV, though one of the Angels observes it's full of notable second-raters (compared to the Legion that normally shows up in Newman's work, which boasts Moriarty and Fu Manchu); members include Raymond Owen and Perry Bennett (some of the earliest villains to tie a damsel to a railway), Mr. Potter from ''Film/ItsAWonderfulLife'', Senator Paine from ''Film/MrSmithGoesToWashington'', and General Sternwood from ''Film/TheBigSleep''.
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* LegacyCharacter: The Phantom is suspected by some, to explain his longevity, of actually being a succession of people behind the mask. [[spoiler:This is not true--until the end of "Deluge", when one of the Angels steps into the role after the Phantom is apparently killed]].
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* CanonWelding: The depiction of Irene Adler and Kate Reed suggests that the book is in the same universe as Newman's ''Literature/DiogenesClub'' and ''Literature/TheHoundOfTheDUrbervilles'' stories. In fact, Sebastian Moran is seen at the French villa in "The Mark of Kane", where he's vacationing at the end of the latter.
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* CanonWelding: The depiction of Irene Adler and Kate Reed suggests that the book is in the same universe as Newman's ''Literature/DiogenesClub'' and ''Literature/TheHoundOfTheDUrbervilles'' ''Literature/TheHoundOfTheDurbervilles'' stories. In fact, Sebastian Moran is seen at the French villa in "The Mark of Kane", where he's vacationing at the end of the latter.
* DeadlyPrank: In "Les Vampires de Paris", [[spoiler:a group of students prank one of their friends by tricking him into thinking that his girlfriend is a vampire and has killed them all. To their horror, he reacts swiftly and decisively by finding a sharp piece of wood and staking her before any of them have a chance to stop him. He subsequently murders each of them in revenge]].
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* GarageBand: a period-appropriate variant in ''Le Gang des Schubert'', a band of unruly opera-wannabes consisting of [[WesternAnimation/LongHairedHare Giovanni Jones]], [[Theatre/DieFledermaus Dr. Falke]], and Anatole Garron (from the 1941 ''Phantom of the Opera'' film). Fittingly, they disbanded after a falling out over a girl [[spoiler: That is, a girl they killed who may or may not have been a vampire]].
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I don't think this counts, since there's no evidence Mrs Professor Van Helsing's disapproval has any effect whatever on her husband, let alone reduces him to quivering meekness. Remember that while she's stomping around Paris complaining about his obsession, *he's* in London happily chasing vampires and telling people that his wife is a lunatic in an asylum.
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* HenpeckedHusband: In Act II, none other than ''{{Literature/Dracula}}'s'' Dr. Abraham van Helsing. His wife belittles his vampire studies as a psychosexual obsession he uses to cope with [[spoiler: the death of their son]], and has actually dedicated her life to debunking vampires.
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* Adaptational Badass: Sort of a necessity, since the stories are all action based, while many of the works the original characters came from were not.
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* Adaptational Badass: Sort of a necessity, since the stories are all action based, while many of the works the original characters came from were not.
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** Charles Foster Kane, decidedly Boorish. He's a FatBastard war profiteer tycoon who buys up European towns and turning them into tacky resorts with adjacent fast food restaurants.
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* HenpeckedHusband: In Act II, none other than {{Literature/''Dracula''}}'s Dr. Abraham van Helsing. His wife belittles his vampire studies as a psychosexual obsession he uses to cope with [[spoiler: the death of their son]], and has actually dedicated her life to debunking vampires.
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* HenpeckedHusband: In Act II, none other than {{Literature/''Dracula''}}'s ''{{Literature/Dracula}}'s'' Dr. Abraham van Helsing. His wife belittles his vampire studies as a psychosexual obsession he uses to cope with [[spoiler: the death of their son]], and has actually dedicated her life to debunking vampires.
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* LegionOfDoom: Charles Foster Kane assembles one in Act IV, though one of the Angels notes it's full of notable second-raters (compared to the Legion that normally shows up in Newman's work, which boasts Moriarty and Fu Manchu); members include Raymond Owen and Perry Bennett (some of the earliest villains to tie a damsel to a railway), Mr. Potter from ''ItsAWonderfulLife'', Senator Paine from ''MrSmithGoesToWashington'', and General Sternwood from ''TheBigSleep''.
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* ToneShift: Each chapter has a different tone to match the decade it's set in (or the century-later equivalent); Act I is decidedly cheesy while Act III is horrifically gory.
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* WarForFunAndProfit: Charles Foster Kane made a fortune selling newspaper headlines about the Spanish-American war, so he plots to start a sequel of sorts: a crisis involving the Suez Canal.
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* BelievingTheirOwnLies: In the interlude, Irene Adler is convinced her husband has some kind of dark secret. It's revealed that [[spoiler: she convinced herself of this fact to justify leaving him because she can't bear living an ordinary married life]].
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* {{Eagleland}}:
** Irene Adler's American nationality is very low key in the Sherlock Holmes story she originally appears in; here she has a pronounced Noo Joisey accent (when she doesn't try to hide it), learned to shoot in a Wild West show, and wears a cowgirl costume to a masquerade ball.
** Charles Foster Kane, decidedly Boorish. He's a FatBastard war profiteer tycoon who buys up European towns and turning them into tacky resorts with adjacent fast food restaurants.
* HenpeckedHusband: In Act II, none other than {{Literature/''Dracula''}}'s Dr. Abraham van Helsing. His wife belittles his vampire studies as a psychosexual obsession he uses to cope with [[spoiler: the death of their son]], and has actually dedicated her life to debunking vampires.
** Irene Adler's American nationality is very low key in the Sherlock Holmes story she originally appears in; here she has a pronounced Noo Joisey accent (when she doesn't try to hide it), learned to shoot in a Wild West show, and wears a cowgirl costume to a masquerade ball.
** Charles Foster Kane, decidedly Boorish. He's a FatBastard war profiteer tycoon who buys up European towns and turning them into tacky resorts with adjacent fast food restaurants.
* HenpeckedHusband: In Act II, none other than {{Literature/''Dracula''}}'s Dr. Abraham van Helsing. His wife belittles his vampire studies as a psychosexual obsession he uses to cope with [[spoiler: the death of their son]], and has actually dedicated her life to debunking vampires.
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* SupervillainLair: The Persian notes that there are not many contractors around to build these. The Phantom of the Opera is on good terms with enough of them that he can get the original blueprints of the Villain of the Week's lair just by asking nicely (what, you thought he built his underground home himself?)
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* AdaptationalVillainy: To an extent. None of the villains are exactly nice people in the original works, but some of them are much worse here.
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* ChainedToARailway: In "The Mark of Kane", the original {{Dastardly Whiplash}}es, Raymond Owen/Mr Koerner (from ''The Perils of Pauline'') and Perry Bennett/the Clutching Hand (from ''The Exploits of Elaine''), have an off-page discussion about how this never works out for them.
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** General Sternwood derides Britain's plans for a hypothetical war with France, because the Normandy beaches would be a terrible place to stage a counter-invasion.
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* ItWillNeverCatchOn:
** When Kate Reed visits the Opera House's armoury, she's offered pearl-handed revolvers that look like they could have belonged to Anne Oakley, and reflects that Oakley's life would be an absurd subject for [[Theatre/AnnieGetYourGun musical theatre]].
** General Sternwood derides Britain's plans for a hypothetical war with France, because the Normandy beaches would be a terrible place to stage a counter-invasion.
** When Kate Reed visits the Opera House's armoury, she's offered pearl-handed revolvers that look like they could have belonged to Anne Oakley, and reflects that Oakley's life would be an absurd subject for [[Theatre/AnnieGetYourGun musical theatre]].
** General Sternwood derides Britain's plans for a hypothetical war with France, because the Normandy beaches would be a terrible place to stage a counter-invasion.
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* JediMindTrick: Used to get past a checkpoint in "Deluge". "These are not the Angels you are looking for."
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* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: The vampiric murders in "Les Vampires de Paris" turn out to have a mundane explanation, but several of the supporting characters were real vampires in the stories they're drawn from, and each gets at least one hint that they're vampires in this story as well.
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* DarkerAndEdgier: Compared to some of the works that characters are drawn from, in particular the use of characters from light operettas like ''Theatre/DieFledermaus'' and ''Theatre/TheMerryWidow'' (not to mention ''[[WesternAnimation/LongHairedHare Giovanni Jones]]''!) in "Les Vampires de Paris".
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''Angels of Music'' features the same version of Irene Adler as Newman's earlier ''Literature/TheHoundOfTheDurbervilles'', and has guest appearances by several characters from the Literature/DiogenesClub series.
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->''Towards the end of the seventies--that colourful, hectic decade of garish clothes, corrupt politics, personal excess and trivial music--three girls were sent to the Paris Opéra.''
''Angels of Music'' is a 2016 novel by Creator/KimNewman. It transposes the premise of ''Series/CharliesAngels'' into a 19th-century MassiveMultiplayerCrossover, depicting a detective agency founded in the 1870s by a [[Literature/ThePhantomOfTheOpera secretive genius who lives beneath the Paris Opera House]], with his protegée Christine as one of the founding agents alongside [[{{Literature/Trilby}} Trilby O'Ferrall]] and [[Literature/SherlockHolmes Irene Adler]].
The novel is divided into five "Acts", each depicting an adventure from a different period of the Opera Ghost Agency's operation and featuring a different line-up of Angels. (Later Angels include [[{{Theatre/Pygmalion}} Elizabeth Eynsford Hill]], [[{{Film/Gigi}} Gilberte Lachaille]], [[Literature/SherlockHolmes Sophy Kratides]], [[Manga/LadySnowblood a vengeful Japanese lady named Yuki]], and Newman's own [[Literature/DiogenesClub Kate Reed]], among others of more obscure origins.) There is also one shorter story, described as an "entr'acte" (the term for a piece of music written to be played in the intermission between acts of an opera).
* Act I: The Marriage Club (1870s). A number of prominent men have been acting uncharacteristically after recently taking young and beautiful wives of obscure origins. What role is played by the socialite [[Literature/ArseneLupin Countess Cagliostro]], and the mysterious works of [[Literature/TheSandman Monsieur Coppélius and Signor Spallanzani]]?
* Act II: Les Vampires de Paris (1880s). A diplomat has been murdered, and his body drained of blood. Popular opinion is that a vampire did it, possibly the mysterious caped figure lately seen haunting the rooftops of the city.
* Entr'acte: The Case of Mrs Norton. A former Angel returns to the Agency, this time as a client seeking assistance with a difficulty involving her husband.
* Act III: Guignol (1890s). There has been a rash of disappearances in a neighborhood where a new theatre has opened, a theatre that specialises in graphic and gory depictions of murder and torture. It's all just a show... isn't it?
* Act IV: The Mark of Kane (1900s). The Agency's commission, should they choose to accept it, is to take down a tycoon from a barbaric nation who plans to set off a war between the superpowers in order to bolster his own country and his own business interests.
* Act V: Deluge (1910). As a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1910_Great_Flood_of_Paris Great Flood]] throws Paris into disarray, an old enemy strikes directly at the Agency. One of the Angels is not who she seems, one of the Angels is not to be trusted. Is this the last stand of the Phantom of the Opera and the Angels of Music?
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!!Contains examples of:
* AllPartOfTheShow: Invoked in "Guignol"; during a public performance to drum up publicity for the Théâtre des Horreurs, the performers abduct one of the Angels in a way that leaves the crowd believing it's part of the act.
* BackForTheFinale: "Deluge" features several former Angels returning to help the current Angels defeat a conspiracy that turns out to be led by most of the surviving bad guys from the earlier Acts.
* CaptainErsatz: The depiction in "Les Vampires de Paris" of the title character of ''Theatre/DieFledermaus'' owes more than a little to ''Franchise/{{Batman}}''.
* ChekhovsGun: Played with in "Guignol", with an actual gun. Several pages are spent on Kate Reed acquiring a revolver to make up for her lack of martial arts skills compared to the other Angels; almost immediately, [[spoiler:she is abducted by the villains, losing her newly-obtained gun in the process. Her skill with firearms does play a role in the denouement, but she needs to steal one of the bad guys' guns first; her own gun is never seen again]].
* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: "The Marriage Club" opens "towards the end of the seventies"--by which it means the ''18''70s, not TheSeventies, but the scene-setting paragraph highlights the similarities between the two decades. The opening of "Les Vampires de Paris" does the same with TheEighties.
* MassiveMultiplayerCrossover: The Phantom, the Persian, and Christine Daaé from ''Literature/ThePhantomOfTheOpera'' join forces with the heroines of ''Literature/{{Trilby}}'' and "[[Literature/SherlockHolmes A Scandal in Bohemia]]". All the later Angels are also borrowed from various works of fiction, as are most of their antagonists and a fair percentage of the side characters.
* MasterOfDisguise:
** La Marmoset, who first appeared in the pulp novel ''La Marmoset, the Detective Queen'' by Albert W. Aiken, has an exceptional talent with disguises.
** Elizabeth Eynsford Hill (formerly [[{{Theatre/Pygmalion}} Eliza Doolittle]]) is depicted as an expert in impersonation, having developed the skill set from the starting point of a talent for vocal mimicry.
* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: The vampiric murders in "Les Vampires de Paris" turn out to have a mundane explanation, but several of the supporting characters were real vampires in the stories they're drawn from, and each gets at least one hint that they're vampires in this story as well.
* NeverFoundTheBody: Several cases, in accordance with tradition, end with the villain's body not being found. Specifically, [[spoiler:Falke at the end of "Les Vampires de Paris", making it possible to reappear as one of the vengeful villains in "Deluge"; and the denouement "Deluge" features the Phantom and his nemesis plunging to an ambiguous watery doom]].
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: The Théâtre des Horreurs in "Guignol" is based on the historical Théâtre du Grand-Guignol, with the grotesqueness turned up even further than in real life.
* PropheticFallacy: In "Deluge", Unorna receives a warning in a vision, the true meaning of which is not apparent until it's too late to be useful. [[spoiler:The warning -- "One of us is not to be trusted. One of us is not who she seems." -- is actually two separate warnings. The Angel who is not who she seems is entirely trustworthy, while the traitor Angel is untrustworthy for reasons that have always been apparent]].
* TheStinger: The book's final chapter is followed by the author's afterword and acknowledgments, an author bio, a page plugging other books from the same publisher, and ''then'' a brief epilogue with a SequelHook.
* ThisPageWillSelfDestruct: In "The Mark of Kane", as part of the ''Series/MissionImpossible'' shout-out, the Opera Ghost Agency receives a secret message on a self-destructing phonograph.
* TooGoodToBeTrue: In "The Case of Mrs Norton", Irene Norton née Adler hires the Angels to investigate her husband Godfrey, having become convinced that someone as seemingly upright and noble as him must be hiding some kind of dark secret.
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''Angels of Music'' is a 2016 novel by Creator/KimNewman. It transposes the premise of ''Series/CharliesAngels'' into a 19th-century MassiveMultiplayerCrossover, depicting a detective agency founded in the 1870s by a [[Literature/ThePhantomOfTheOpera secretive genius who lives beneath the Paris Opera House]], with his protegée Christine as one of the founding agents alongside [[{{Literature/Trilby}} Trilby O'Ferrall]] and [[Literature/SherlockHolmes Irene Adler]].
The novel is divided into five "Acts", each depicting an adventure from a different period of the Opera Ghost Agency's operation and featuring a different line-up of Angels. (Later Angels include [[{{Theatre/Pygmalion}} Elizabeth Eynsford Hill]], [[{{Film/Gigi}} Gilberte Lachaille]], [[Literature/SherlockHolmes Sophy Kratides]], [[Manga/LadySnowblood a vengeful Japanese lady named Yuki]], and Newman's own [[Literature/DiogenesClub Kate Reed]], among others of more obscure origins.) There is also one shorter story, described as an "entr'acte" (the term for a piece of music written to be played in the intermission between acts of an opera).
* Act I: The Marriage Club (1870s). A number of prominent men have been acting uncharacteristically after recently taking young and beautiful wives of obscure origins. What role is played by the socialite [[Literature/ArseneLupin Countess Cagliostro]], and the mysterious works of [[Literature/TheSandman Monsieur Coppélius and Signor Spallanzani]]?
* Act II: Les Vampires de Paris (1880s). A diplomat has been murdered, and his body drained of blood. Popular opinion is that a vampire did it, possibly the mysterious caped figure lately seen haunting the rooftops of the city.
* Entr'acte: The Case of Mrs Norton. A former Angel returns to the Agency, this time as a client seeking assistance with a difficulty involving her husband.
* Act III: Guignol (1890s). There has been a rash of disappearances in a neighborhood where a new theatre has opened, a theatre that specialises in graphic and gory depictions of murder and torture. It's all just a show... isn't it?
* Act IV: The Mark of Kane (1900s). The Agency's commission, should they choose to accept it, is to take down a tycoon from a barbaric nation who plans to set off a war between the superpowers in order to bolster his own country and his own business interests.
* Act V: Deluge (1910). As a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1910_Great_Flood_of_Paris Great Flood]] throws Paris into disarray, an old enemy strikes directly at the Agency. One of the Angels is not who she seems, one of the Angels is not to be trusted. Is this the last stand of the Phantom of the Opera and the Angels of Music?
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!!Contains examples of:
* AllPartOfTheShow: Invoked in "Guignol"; during a public performance to drum up publicity for the Théâtre des Horreurs, the performers abduct one of the Angels in a way that leaves the crowd believing it's part of the act.
* BackForTheFinale: "Deluge" features several former Angels returning to help the current Angels defeat a conspiracy that turns out to be led by most of the surviving bad guys from the earlier Acts.
* CaptainErsatz: The depiction in "Les Vampires de Paris" of the title character of ''Theatre/DieFledermaus'' owes more than a little to ''Franchise/{{Batman}}''.
* ChekhovsGun: Played with in "Guignol", with an actual gun. Several pages are spent on Kate Reed acquiring a revolver to make up for her lack of martial arts skills compared to the other Angels; almost immediately, [[spoiler:she is abducted by the villains, losing her newly-obtained gun in the process. Her skill with firearms does play a role in the denouement, but she needs to steal one of the bad guys' guns first; her own gun is never seen again]].
* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: "The Marriage Club" opens "towards the end of the seventies"--by which it means the ''18''70s, not TheSeventies, but the scene-setting paragraph highlights the similarities between the two decades. The opening of "Les Vampires de Paris" does the same with TheEighties.
* MassiveMultiplayerCrossover: The Phantom, the Persian, and Christine Daaé from ''Literature/ThePhantomOfTheOpera'' join forces with the heroines of ''Literature/{{Trilby}}'' and "[[Literature/SherlockHolmes A Scandal in Bohemia]]". All the later Angels are also borrowed from various works of fiction, as are most of their antagonists and a fair percentage of the side characters.
* MasterOfDisguise:
** La Marmoset, who first appeared in the pulp novel ''La Marmoset, the Detective Queen'' by Albert W. Aiken, has an exceptional talent with disguises.
** Elizabeth Eynsford Hill (formerly [[{{Theatre/Pygmalion}} Eliza Doolittle]]) is depicted as an expert in impersonation, having developed the skill set from the starting point of a talent for vocal mimicry.
* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: The vampiric murders in "Les Vampires de Paris" turn out to have a mundane explanation, but several of the supporting characters were real vampires in the stories they're drawn from, and each gets at least one hint that they're vampires in this story as well.
* NeverFoundTheBody: Several cases, in accordance with tradition, end with the villain's body not being found. Specifically, [[spoiler:Falke at the end of "Les Vampires de Paris", making it possible to reappear as one of the vengeful villains in "Deluge"; and the denouement "Deluge" features the Phantom and his nemesis plunging to an ambiguous watery doom]].
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: The Théâtre des Horreurs in "Guignol" is based on the historical Théâtre du Grand-Guignol, with the grotesqueness turned up even further than in real life.
* PropheticFallacy: In "Deluge", Unorna receives a warning in a vision, the true meaning of which is not apparent until it's too late to be useful. [[spoiler:The warning -- "One of us is not to be trusted. One of us is not who she seems." -- is actually two separate warnings. The Angel who is not who she seems is entirely trustworthy, while the traitor Angel is untrustworthy for reasons that have always been apparent]].
* TheStinger: The book's final chapter is followed by the author's afterword and acknowledgments, an author bio, a page plugging other books from the same publisher, and ''then'' a brief epilogue with a SequelHook.
* ThisPageWillSelfDestruct: In "The Mark of Kane", as part of the ''Series/MissionImpossible'' shout-out, the Opera Ghost Agency receives a secret message on a self-destructing phonograph.
* TooGoodToBeTrue: In "The Case of Mrs Norton", Irene Norton née Adler hires the Angels to investigate her husband Godfrey, having become convinced that someone as seemingly upright and noble as him must be hiding some kind of dark secret.
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