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* WhereTheHellIsSpringfield / NoCommunitiesWereHarmed: The series takes place in "Isola", a borough or district of an unnamed city in an unnamed East Coast state. As mentioned above, it's clearly meant to be a stand-in for NYC (which nonetheless exists as a separate location in the series' universe).
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* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: The Deaf Man
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* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: A part of [=McBane=]'s signature writing style. Characters regulalry talks with a random people about random subjects.
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* DetectivePatsy: Bert Kling in ''The Mugger''.
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* DetectivePatsy: Happens to unexperienced patrolman Bert Kling in ''The Mugger''.Mugger''. Bert gets a promotion to Detective after that.
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* DetectivePatsy: Bert Kling in ''The Mugger''.
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Eighty Million Eyes. I had to Google the title, but I remember this much.
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* FatalMethodActing: ''Eighty Million Eyes''
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* UnintentionallyNotoriousCrime: In ''Lady, Lady, I Did It'', a shooter opens fire in a store and guns down four people. One of them happens to be Detective Bert Kling's fiancee, thereby guaranteeing that the crime has the attention of every cop in the city.
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* SelfDeprecation: Both Meyer Meyer and The Deaf Man admit to hating AlfredHitchcock's ''The Birds'', the screenplay for which was written by... EvanHunter.
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* SelfDeprecation: Both Meyer Meyer and The Deaf Man admit to hating AlfredHitchcock's Creator/AlfredHitchcock's ''The Birds'', the screenplay for which was written by... EvanHunter.
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* OneWordTitle: Many of the books, particularly in the '80s and '90s.
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* InterruptedSuicideInterruptedSuicide: [[spoiler: Unsuccessfully interrupted in ''Like Love''.]]
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* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler: Roger Havilland in ''Killer's Choice'', Frankie Hernandez in ''See Them Die'', Claire Townsend in ''Lady, Lady, I Did It!'']].
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* BerserkButton: Emma is Brother Anthony's in ''Ice''. [[spoiler: And vice versa, as the novel's killer ultimately finds out...]]
** As a father of a teenage daughter, Meyer absolutely hates paedophiles and has to be cautioned by Carella in ''Lullaby'' when dealing with [[spoiler:the father of the murdered baby, who was having an affair with the other murder victim - the 15 year old sitter.]]
** As a father of a teenage daughter, Meyer absolutely hates paedophiles and has to be cautioned by Carella in ''Lullaby'' when dealing with [[spoiler:the father of the murdered baby, who was having an affair with the other murder victim - the 15 year old sitter.]]
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* BerserkButton: Emma is Brother Anthony's in ''Ice''. [[spoiler: And vice versa, as the novel's killer ultimately finds out...out when he murders Anthony...]]
** As a father of a teenage daughter, Meyer absolutely hates paedophiles and has to be cautioned by Carella in ''Lullaby'' when dealing with[[spoiler:the [[spoiler: the father of the murdered baby, who was having an affair with the other murder victim - the 15 year old sitter.]]]]
** And in ''Lady, Lady, I Did It!'', when Carella, Brown and Kling go to arrest the killer, [[spoiler: Kling loses all control and beats him half to death, because one of his victims was [[RecurringCharacter Kling's girlfriend Claire Townsend]].]]
** As a father of a teenage daughter, Meyer absolutely hates paedophiles and has to be cautioned by Carella in ''Lullaby'' when dealing with
** And in ''Lady, Lady, I Did It!'', when Carella, Brown and Kling go to arrest the killer, [[spoiler: Kling loses all control and beats him half to death, because one of his victims was [[RecurringCharacter Kling's girlfriend Claire Townsend]].]]
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* ScaryBlackMan: Arthur Brown, and he's more than happy to play on white people's prejudices. Unfortunately, some white suspects have a tendency to talk to the white cop who's interviewing them (usually Kling) and ignore Brown completely.
* ScaryBlackMan: Arthur Brown, and he's more than happy to play on white people's prejudices. Unfortunately, some white suspects have a tendency to talk to the white cop who's interviewing them (usually Kling) and ignore Brown completely.
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* RepetitiveName: Meyer Meyer
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* ScaryBlackMan: Arthur Brown, and he's more than happy to play on white people'sprejudices. prejudices (see ''Jigsaw'' for an excellent example). Unfortunately, some white suspects have a tendency to talk to the white cop who's interviewing them (usually Kling) and ignore Brown completely.completely.
* SelfDeprecation: Both Meyer Meyer and The Deaf Man admit to hating AlfredHitchcock's ''The Birds'', the screenplay for which was written by... EvanHunter.
* ScaryBlackMan: Arthur Brown, and he's more than happy to play on white people's
* SelfDeprecation: Both Meyer Meyer and The Deaf Man admit to hating AlfredHitchcock's ''The Birds'', the screenplay for which was written by... EvanHunter.
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* VillainEpisode: [[spoiler: ''He Who Hesitates'']]Hesitates'']].
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* NotSoHarmless: some of the most mild and harmless-seeming people turn out to be killers, such as [[spoiler:Timothy Moore, the victim's medical student boyfriend in ''Ice''.]]
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* NotSoHarmless: NotSoHarmlessVillain: some of the most mild and harmless-seeming people turn out to be killers, such as [[spoiler:Timothy Moore, the victim's medical student boyfriend in ''Ice''.]]
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* LockedRoomMystery: ''Killer's Wedge''
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* InsistsOnPaying: Steve Carella (and, by extension, every honest cop).
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The ''87th Precinct'' series is a LongRunningBookSeries in the PoliceProcedural genre, written by Ed [=McBain=] (the crime-fiction writing pseudonym of EvanHunter). It features a revolving cast of police officers from the eponymous precinct, in [[NoCommunitiesWereHarmed an unnamed city that isn't exactly New York]].
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The ''87th Precinct'' series is a LongRunningBookSeries in the PoliceProcedural genre, written by Ed [=McBain=] (the crime-fiction writing pseudonym of EvanHunter).Creator/EvanHunter). It features a revolving cast of police officers from the eponymous precinct, in [[NoCommunitiesWereHarmed an unnamed city that isn't exactly New York]].
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* BewareTheNiceOnes: some of the most harmless-seeming people turn out to be killers, such as [[spoiler:Timothy Moore, the victim's medical student boyfriend in ''Ice''.]]
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* BadassInDistress: [[spoiler:Carella]] is kidnapped, chained to a radiator and injected with heroin in ''Doll''.
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* AssholeVictim: the victims in ''Fiddlers'' become less sympathetic when you discover just what rotten people they were, and [[spoiler:what they did to Charlie to make him so deranged.]] Michelle in ''Romance'' is a whiny, spoiled diva who gets her boyfriend / agent to stab her for attention.
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* AssholeVictim: the victims in ''Fiddlers'' become less sympathetic when you discover just what rotten people they were, and [[spoiler:what they did to Charlie to make him so deranged.]] Michelle Michelle, the main victim in ''Romance'' ''Romance'', is a whiny, spoiled diva who gets her boyfriend / agent to stab her for attention.attention [[spoiler:and is later stabbed for real]].
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* AssholeVictim: the victims in ''Fiddlers'' become less sympathetic when you discover just what rotten people they were, and [[spoiler:what they did to Charlie to make him so deranged.]]
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* AssholeVictim: the victims in ''Fiddlers'' become less sympathetic when you discover just what rotten people they were, and [[spoiler:what they did to Charlie to make him so deranged.]]]] Michelle in ''Romance'' is a whiny, spoiled diva who gets her boyfriend / agent to stab her for attention.
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** As a father of a teenage daughter, Meyer absolutely hates paedophiles and has to be cautioned by Carella in ''Lullaby'' when dealing with [[spoiler:the father of the murdered baby, who was having an affair with the other murder victim - the 15 year old sitter.]]
* BestServedCold: The main plot in ''Ten PlusOne''.One'' and ''Fiddlers''. [[spoiler:In the former, the killer is targeting people who were in a play with his wife at university, and who participated in an orgy-turned-gang rape during the aftershow which left her infertile. In the latter, the killer is targeting people who screwed him over in some way, from his own mother - who abandoned him and his brother - to a teacher who refused to give him an A and made fun of him.]]
* BrokenBird: Eileen Burke, so very much. [[spoiler: She becomes a cop after her father and uncle, both policemen, are murdered, and dreams of avenging her uncle's death. She is raped and slashed in one book and suffers PTSD as a result, and it gets worse after the events of ''Tricks'', when she shoots a man who was killing and mutilating prostitutes, after he tried to kill her.]]
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* BrokenBird: Eileen Burke, so very much. [[spoiler: She becomes a cop after her father and uncle, both policemen, are murdered, and dreams of avenging her uncle's death. She is raped and slashed in one book and suffers PTSD as a result, and it gets worse after the events of ''Tricks'', when she shoots a man who was killing and mutilating prostitutes, after he tried to kill her.]]
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* DisabledLoveInterest: Theodora "Teddy" Carella
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* FatBastard: 88th Precinct detective Fat Ollie Weeks, and police informer Fats Donner. The former is a bigot, the latter is a paedophile.
* FatBastard: 88th Precinct detective Fat Ollie Weeks, and police informer Fats Donner. The former is a bigot, the latter is a paedophile.
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* HalloweenEpisode: ''Tricks''''Tricks''. There's even a group of [[spoiler:circus midgets]] who yell 'trick or treat!' before shooting people.
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* HowUnscientificHowUnscientific: ''Ghosts''
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* ChristmasEpisode: ''And All Through the House'', ''Ghosts'', ''Money Money Money''
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* ChristmasEpisode: ''And All Through the House'', ''Ghosts'', ''Money Money Money''Money'', ''The Pusher''
