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* ''[[Film/TheFrenchConnection The French Confection]]'' (2003)
* ''[[Film/TheThirdMan The Blurred Man]]'' (2003)
* ''[[Film/IKnowWhatYouDidLastSummer I Know What You Did Last Wednesday]]'' (2003)
* ''[[Film/HowTheGrinchStoleChristmas The Greek Who Stole Christmas]]'' (2008)


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* ''[[Film/TheFrenchConnection The ''The French Confection]]'' Confection'' (2003)
* ''[[Film/TheThirdMan The ''The Blurred Man]]'' Man'' (2003)
* ''[[Film/IKnowWhatYouDidLastSummer I ''I Know What You Did Last Wednesday]]'' Wednesday'' (2003)
* ''[[Film/HowTheGrinchStoleChristmas The ''The Greek Who Stole Christmas]]'' Christmas'' (2008)

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* AlwaysSecondBest: In ''I Know What You Did Last Wednesday'', the mysterious killer, [[spoiler:Captain Randle/Johnny Nadler]], came second in every subject in school and never really stood out of the group he was part of in school (which consisted of everybody who came first). He doesn't respond too well; [[spoiler:he lures everybody who bested him to a secluded island and kills them with cruel and ironic death traps which somehow relate to the subject they beat him in (poisoned the person who came first in Chemistry, stabbing the person who came first in French with a model of the Eiffel Tower, etc.)]].
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* CourtroomAntic: Subverted by ''Public Enemy Number Two'': when Tim is called as a witness to Nick's trial, he does proceed to make a complete mockery of the legal system by saying increasingly stupid things, but he is completely unaware he's doing so and it more or less secures Nick's conviction.

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* CourtroomAntic: CourtroomAntics: Subverted by ''Public Enemy Number Two'': when Tim is called as a witness to Nick's trial, he does proceed to make a complete mockery of the legal system by saying increasingly stupid things, but he is completely unaware he's doing so and it more or less secures Nick's conviction.
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* ''Where Seagulls Dare'' (2022)

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* ''Where Seagulls Dare'' ''Literature/WhereSeagullsDare'' (2022)

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* ''[[Film/NorthByNorthwest South by South East]]'' (1991)

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* ''[[Film/NorthByNorthwest South by South East]]'' ''Literature/SouthBySouthEast'' (1991)


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!!Short Stories:
* ''The Double Eagle Has Landed'' (2011)
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* ''Where Seagulls Dare'' (2022)



The novellas have been collected in ''Three of Diamonds'' (later retitled ''Four of Diamonds'' with the release of ''The Greek Who Stole Christmas''). The first novel was adapted for the big screen in 1989 under the name ''Just Ask For Diamond'', and ''South by South East'' was made into a TV series in 1991 using the same cast. A final novella intending to act as a GrandFinale, ''The Radius of the Lost Shark'', has been in DevelopmentHell since at least 2003, with Horowitz still promising it will be published as recently as 2020. A short story, [[https://www.anthonyhorowitz.com/extras/feature/short-story-the-double-eagle-has-landed "The Double Eagle Has Landed"]], was published in the Guardian in 2011, and in 2020 Horowitz announced a new story, ''Where Seagulls Dare'', was to be [[https://diamondbrothers.anthonyhorowitz.com/where-seagulls-dare released online chapter-by-chapter]] during the [[UsefulNotes/CoronavirusDisease2019Pandemic 2020 coronavirus pandemic]].

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The novellas have been collected in ''Three of Diamonds'' (later retitled ''Four of Diamonds'' with the release of ''The Greek Who Stole Christmas''). The first novel was adapted for the big screen in 1989 under the name ''Just Ask For Diamond'', and ''South by South East'' was made into a TV series in 1991 using the same cast. A final novella intending to act as a GrandFinale, ''The Radius of the Lost Shark'', has been in DevelopmentHell since at least 2003, with Horowitz still promising it will be published as recently as 2020. A short story, [[https://www.anthonyhorowitz.com/extras/feature/short-story-the-double-eagle-has-landed "The Double Eagle Has Landed"]], was published in the Guardian in 2011, and in 2020 Horowitz announced a new story, ''Where Seagulls Dare'', was to be [[https://diamondbrothers.anthonyhorowitz.com/where-seagulls-dare released online chapter-by-chapter]] chapter-by-chapter during the [[UsefulNotes/CoronavirusDisease2019Pandemic 2020 coronavirus pandemic]].pandemic]]; it was later released as a book, the first full-length entry in the series in over 30 years.
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* ScheduleSlip: 12 years between books 3 and 4.



* WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids: Despite being comedic children's stories, the books make absolutely no bones about the nature of the various criminals the brothers face, ie dangerous killers with no qualms about [[WouldHurtAChild hurting children.]] The police aren't that much better, coming across as ruthless manipulative thugs who treat the Diamonds as expendable tools at best.
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* MeaningfulName: In the final chapter of ''Public Enemy Number Two'', Nick realises his French teacher, Palis, is the BigBad when he translates his nickname, the Fence, into French:
-->''Palissade.''
-->''Palis.''

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* MeaningfulName: In [[spoiler:In the final chapter of ''Public Enemy Number Two'', Nick realises his French teacher, Palis, is the BigBad when he translates his nickname, the Fence, into French:
-->''Palissade.''
-->''Palis.''
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-->''[[spoiler:Palissade.]]''
-->''[[spoiler:Palis.]]''
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