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* FatBastard: 88th Precinct detective Fat Ollie Weeks, and police informer Fats Donner. The former is a bigot, the latter a pedophile.
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* ForWantOfANail: In ''The Heckler'', the Deaf Man and his accomplices make off in an ice cream van. [[spoiler:But it has no ice cream and, while awaiting the ferry, a police patrolman asks for an ice cream...]]
* ImmediateSequel: ''Eight Black Horses'' picks up straight after where ''Lightning'' [[SequelHook left off]].
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* LowerDeckEpisode: ''Hail, Hail the Gang's All Here'' gives brief spotlights to some of the precincts least seen detectives.
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* LowerDeckEpisode: ''Hail, Hail the Gang's All Here'' gives brief spotlights to some of the precincts precinct's least seen detectives.detectives.
* MeaningfulName: Usually averted, but played straight with Don King from ''King's Ransom''.
* MeaningfulName: Usually averted, but played straight with Don King from ''King's Ransom''.
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* 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''.]]
* MeaningfulName: Usually averted, but played straight with Don King from ''King's Ransom''.
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* NotSoHarmlessVillain: some 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''.]]
* MeaningfulName: Usually averted, but played straight with Don King from ''King's Ransom''.]]
* MeaningfulName: Usually averted, but played straight with Don King from ''King's Ransom''.
* ReportsOfMyDeathWereGreatlyExaggerated: [[spoiler:Carella]] reads his own obituary in ''Doll''.
* TheTheTitle: a few of the early ones - ''The Pusher''; ''The Heckler''.
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* TreasureMap: In ''Jigsaw'' a gang of thieves made a map of where they were login to hide their loot, then tore up the pieces (two for each gang member) and entrusted them to various friends and relatives. The gang all died in a shootout with the police and the novel follows the detectives and various criminals trying to get the pieces of the treasure map to recreate it and find the loot.
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* TreasureMap: In ''Jigsaw'' a gang of thieves made a map of where they were login going to hide their loot, then tore up the pieces (two for each gang member) and entrusted them to various friends and relatives. The gang all died in a shootout with the police and the novel follows the detectives and various criminals trying to get the pieces of the treasure map to recreate it and find the loot.
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* AccidentalKidnapping: ''King's Ransom'' has the son of a savant mistaken for the son of a rich man and abducted.
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* AccidentalKidnapping: ''King's Ransom'' has the son of a savant servant mistaken for the son of a rich man and abducted.
* SecondEpisodeIntroduction: Monaghan and Monroe debut in ''The Mugger'', the second book of the series.
* StalkerWithACrush: Kling must protect Cindy Forrest from one in ''Eighty Million Eyes''.
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* VillainEpisode: [[spoiler: ''He Who Hesitates'']] is told entirely from the killers point of view.
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* VillainEpisode: [[spoiler: ''He Who Hesitates'']] is told entirely from the killers killer's point of view.
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** One short story has a Rabbi murdered by [[spoiler: An ultra conservative coulleauge upset that he -reluctantly and only due to the workers busy schedule- was willing to hire a workman to renovate the Synagogue on the Sabbath]].
** In ''Lady, Lady I Did It'', [[spoiler:The killer is a garage employee who gunned down a customer -and three innocent bystanders- out of simple anger that the man didn't like the color he'd repainted the car and made him do it over again. Not helping the matter was that the main victim was Jewish and the killer was an anti-semite]].
** In ''Lady, Lady I Did It'', [[spoiler:The killer is a garage employee who gunned down a customer -and three innocent bystanders- out of simple anger that the man didn't like the color he'd repainted the car and made him do it over again. Not helping the matter was that the main victim was Jewish and the killer was an anti-semite]].
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* AbsenceOfEvidence: Items wiped clean attract suspicion in [[spoiler:''Axe'']] and [[spoiler:''Heat'']].
* TheBadGuysAreCops: [[spoiler:Mike Ingersoll]] in ''Let's Hear It For The Deaf Man''.
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* DirtyCop: Roger Havilland. While never portrayed as an antagonist (just TheFriendNobodyLikes) he beats up suspects on occasion and after his death it's confirmed that he was taking bribes to protect a gambling wring.
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-->[[spoiler:"He did it for the lousy two-bit wood business."]]
-->[[spoiler:"He did it for the lousy two-bit wood business."]]
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* ButtMonkey: The Deaf Man, surprisingly. On one hand he constantly gets a lot of people killed and avoids being arrested. On the other hand, he ''always'' ends up empty handed, continuously fails to prove himself smarter than the detectives of the 87th Precinct, and is repeatedly badly injured and/or forced to flee town with his tail between his legs. [[CatharsisFactor The guy is such a smug, sadist that it's pretty satisfying to watch]].
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%%* GangBangers: ''Hail to the Chief''.
%%* GirlsBehindBars: Part of Marilyn's backstory in ''Poison''.
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** ''Lady, Lady I Did It'' involves a teenaged girl [[ChildByRape impregnated by a rapist]] who died from the effects an illegal abortion.
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* HeatWave: ''Cop Hater'', ''Bread'', ''Heat''and ''Heat'' all take place in hotter than usual periods of time.
* HelloAttorney: Prosecutor Nellie Brand is often introduced being called over to the precinct after having just been dressing up nice for a dinner date or something.
* HelloAttorney: Prosecutor Nellie Brand is often introduced being called over to the precinct after having just been dressing up nice for a dinner date or something.
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* NoCommunitiesWereHarmed: The CrapsackWorld city is a fictional one.
* OnceDoneNeverForgotten: Just about any time Carella thinks about Assistant District Attorney Henry Lowell he remembers that he's the guy who failed to convict the murderer of [[spoiler:Carella's father]], usually admitting to himself that the man tried hard and it isn't fair to hold it against him, but he still does.
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* EurekaMoment: Cotton Hawes often has well-timed bursts of realisation.
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* INeverSaidItWasPoison: Frequent mistake of suspects being questioned is saying more than they claim to know about.
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* InfoDump: Usually at the end, in the form of a transcript of the culprit's confession explaining various details that have been puzzling the detectives.
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* IdentifyingTheBody: In ''Tricks'', a stage magician's decapitated body is found and his wife identifies him by some scars on the body. [[spoiler: They actually had faked his death and the body is that of his assistant.]]
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* SuspectIsHatless: In ''Lady, Lady I Did It'', a gunman opens fire in a crowded bookstore; killing several people. Despite there being multiple eyewitnesses, the police are unable to get an accurate description as most of them were focused on the gun. And, even then, the description of the gun varies greatly from person to person. It turns out, [[spoiler:the gunman was using two quite different guns; one in each hand]].
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* SuspectIsHatless: In SuspectIsHatless:
**In ''Lady, Lady I Did It'', a gunman opens fire in a crowded bookstore; killing several people. Despite there being multiple eyewitnesses, the police are unable to get an accurate description as most of them were focused on the gun. And, even then, the description of the gun varies greatly from person to person. It turns out, [[spoiler:the gunman was using two quite different guns; one in eachhand]].hand]].
** Lampshaded in ''Blood Relatives'' when a victim fails to pick a suspect out of a lineup. The narrative then describes how at some time during their training, police officers have to describe someone who entered their classroom during a lecture (results of which are, to say the least, varying).
**In ''Lady, Lady I Did It'', a gunman opens fire in a crowded bookstore; killing several people. Despite there being multiple eyewitnesses, the police are unable to get an accurate description as most of them were focused on the gun. And, even then, the description of the gun varies greatly from person to person. It turns out, [[spoiler:the gunman was using two quite different guns; one in each
** Lampshaded in ''Blood Relatives'' when a victim fails to pick a suspect out of a lineup. The narrative then describes how at some time during their training, police officers have to describe someone who entered their classroom during a lecture (results of which are, to say the least, varying).
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* ObfuscatingDisability: While the Deaf Man wears a hearing aid, it's suggested on various occasions (including by the Deaf Man himself, in ''The Heckler'') that it may just be a prop.
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* ObfuscatingDisability: NoCommunitiesWereHarmed: The novels are set in Isola, a district of an [[CityWithNoName unnamed, fictional city]] in an unnamed state which, as mentioned above, closely resembles New York. Isola includes many features of Manhattan, and the other districts mentioned are clear expies for New York City's other four boroughs.
** More specifically, according to [[Wiki/{{Wikipedia}} The Other Wiki]], [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isola_(fictional_city) "Calm's Point" is Brooklyn, "Majesta" is Queens, "Riverhead" is the Bronx, and "Bethtown" Staten Island]]. Then there's the Harb (Hudson) and Dix (East) Rivers, and the similarly unnamed "next state" (New Jersey). George M. Dove's unofficial 1985 companion to the series, ''The Boys from Grover Avenue'', analyzes the geography of [=McBain=]'s "Imaginary City" and describes it as NYC shifted to the side, so that north becomes east, east south, etc.
** Oddly enough, New York itself is occasionally mentioned in the books. Apparently [=McBain=]'s universe has two huge and virtually-interchangeable metropolises co-existing very close to one another on the East Coast of the United States.
** The film adaptations of ''Cop Hater'' (1958) and ''The Pusher'' (1960) are explicitly set in NYC. Meanwhile, the film of ''Fuzz'' (1972) is set in Boston for some reason, and the film of ''Blood Relatives'' (1978), being a French-Canadian co-production, is set in ''Montreal''!
* ObfuscatingDisability:
** While the Deaf Man wears a hearing aid, it's suggested on various occasions (including by the Deaf Man himself, in ''The Heckler'') that it may just be aprop.prop.
** [[spoiler: Elmer Wollender]] in "Storm", from ''The Empty Hours''.
** More specifically, according to [[Wiki/{{Wikipedia}} The Other Wiki]], [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isola_(fictional_city) "Calm's Point" is Brooklyn, "Majesta" is Queens, "Riverhead" is the Bronx, and "Bethtown" Staten Island]]. Then there's the Harb (Hudson) and Dix (East) Rivers, and the similarly unnamed "next state" (New Jersey). George M. Dove's unofficial 1985 companion to the series, ''The Boys from Grover Avenue'', analyzes the geography of [=McBain=]'s "Imaginary City" and describes it as NYC shifted to the side, so that north becomes east, east south, etc.
** Oddly enough, New York itself is occasionally mentioned in the books. Apparently [=McBain=]'s universe has two huge and virtually-interchangeable metropolises co-existing very close to one another on the East Coast of the United States.
** The film adaptations of ''Cop Hater'' (1958) and ''The Pusher'' (1960) are explicitly set in NYC. Meanwhile, the film of ''Fuzz'' (1972) is set in Boston for some reason, and the film of ''Blood Relatives'' (1978), being a French-Canadian co-production, is set in ''Montreal''!
* ObfuscatingDisability:
** While the Deaf Man wears a hearing aid, it's suggested on various occasions (including by the Deaf Man himself, in ''The Heckler'') that it may just be a
** [[spoiler: Elmer Wollender]] in "Storm", from ''The Empty Hours''.
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* RabidCop: Masterson and Brock in ''Ten Plus One''.
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* NoCommunitiesWereHarmed: The novels are set in Isola, a district of an [[CityWithNoName unnamed, fictional city]] in an unnamed state which, as mentioned above, closely resembles New York. Isola includes many features of Manhattan, and the other districts mentioned are clear expies for New York City's other four boroughs.
** More specifically, according to [[Wiki/{{Wikipedia}} The Other Wiki]], [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isola_(fictional_city) "Calm's Point" is Brooklyn, "Majesta" is Queens, "Riverhead" is the Bronx, and "Bethtown" Staten Island]]. Then there's the Harb (Hudson) and Dix (East) Rivers, and the similarly unnamed "next state" (New Jersey). George M. Dove's unofficial 1985 companion to the series, ''The Boys from Grover Avenue'', analyzes the geography of [=McBain=]'s "Imaginary City" and describes it as NYC shifted to the side, so that north becomes east, east south, etc.
** Oddly enough, New York itself is occasionally mentioned in the books. Apparently [=McBain=]'s universe has two huge and virtually-interchangeable metropolises co-existing very close to one another on the East Coast of the United States.
** The film adaptations of ''Cop Hater'' (1958) and ''The Pusher'' (1960) are explicitly set in NYC. Meanwhile, the film of ''Fuzz'' (1972) is set in Boston for some reason, and the film of ''Blood Relatives'' (1978), being a French-Canadian co-production, is set in ''Montreal''!
** More specifically, according to [[Wiki/{{Wikipedia}} The Other Wiki]], [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isola_(fictional_city) "Calm's Point" is Brooklyn, "Majesta" is Queens, "Riverhead" is the Bronx, and "Bethtown" Staten Island]]. Then there's the Harb (Hudson) and Dix (East) Rivers, and the similarly unnamed "next state" (New Jersey). George M. Dove's unofficial 1985 companion to the series, ''The Boys from Grover Avenue'', analyzes the geography of [=McBain=]'s "Imaginary City" and describes it as NYC shifted to the side, so that north becomes east, east south, etc.
** Oddly enough, New York itself is occasionally mentioned in the books. Apparently [=McBain=]'s universe has two huge and virtually-interchangeable metropolises co-existing very close to one another on the East Coast of the United States.
** The film adaptations of ''Cop Hater'' (1958) and ''The Pusher'' (1960) are explicitly set in NYC. Meanwhile, the film of ''Fuzz'' (1972) is set in Boston for some reason, and the film of ''Blood Relatives'' (1978), being a French-Canadian co-production, is set in ''Montreal''!
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* FieryRedhead: Eileen Burke.
* GangBangers: ''Hail to the Chief''.
* GirlsBehindBars: Part of Marilyn's backstory in ''Poison''.
* GoodGirlsAvoidAbortion: Invoked and subverted in ''Lightning''.
* GangBangers: ''Hail to the Chief''.
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* InterruptedSuicide: [[spoiler: Unsuccessfully One was unsuccessfully interrupted in ''Like [[spoiler:''Like Love''.]]
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There have been several screen adaptations, including the feature films ''Cop Hater'' (1958), ''The Mugger'' (1958), ''The Pusher'' (1960), ''Fuzz'' (1972) and ''Blood Relatives'' (1978); a short-lived weekly series, ''87th Precinct'' (1961-62); and three {{Made for TV Movie}}s, ''Lightning'' (1995), ''Ice'' (1996), and ''Heatwave'' (1997). Most famously, ''King's Ransom'' was adapted into the Japanese film ''Film/{{High and Low|1963}}'' (1963) by Creator/AkiraKurosawa. ''So Long As You Both Shall Live'' and ''Jigsaw'' were also adapted for ''Series/{{Columbo}}'' (as "[[Recap/ColumboS10E05 No Time To Die]]" and "Undercover" respectively, with Arthur Brown joining Columbo in the latter).
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There have been several screen adaptations, including the feature films ''Cop Hater'' (1958), ''The Mugger'' (1958), ''The Pusher'' (1960), ''Fuzz'' (1972) and ''Blood Relatives'' (1978); a short-lived weekly series, ''87th Precinct'' (1961-62); and three {{Made for TV Movie}}s, ''Lightning'' (1995), ''Ice'' (1996), and ''Heatwave'' (1997). Most famously, ''King's Ransom'' was adapted into the Japanese film ''Film/{{High and Low|1963}}'' (1963) by Creator/AkiraKurosawa. ''So Long As You Both Shall Live'' and ''Jigsaw'' were also adapted for ''Series/{{Columbo}}'' (as "[[Recap/ColumboS10E05 No Time To Die]]" and "Undercover" "[[Recap/ColumboS10E09 Undercover]]" respectively, with Arthur Brown joining Columbo in the latter).
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There have been several screen adaptations, including the feature films ''Cop Hater'' (1958), ''The Mugger'' (1958), ''The Pusher'' (1960), ''Fuzz'' (1972) and ''Blood Relatives'' (1978); a short-lived weekly series, ''87th Precinct'' (1961-62); and three {{Made for TV Movie}}s, ''Lightning'' (1995), ''Ice'' (1996), and ''Heatwave'' (1997). Most famously, ''King's Ransom'' was adapted into the Japanese film ''Film/{{High and Low|1963}}'' (1963) by Creator/AkiraKurosawa. ''So Long As You Both Shall Live'' and ''Jigsaw'' were also adapted for ''Series/{{Columbo}}'' (as "No "[[Recap/ColumboS10E05 No Time To Die" Die]]" and "Undercover" respectively, with Arthur Brown joining Columbo in the latter).
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There have been several screen adaptations, including the feature films ''Cop Hater'' (1958), ''The Mugger'' (1958), ''The Pusher'' (1960), ''Fuzz'' (1972) and ''Blood Relatives'' (1978); a short-lived weekly series, ''87th Precinct'' (1961-62); and three {{Made for TV Movie}}s, ''Lightning'' (1995), ''Ice'' (1996), and ''Heatwave'' (1997). Most famously, ''King's Ransom'' was adapted into the Japanese film ''Film/HighAndLow'' ''Film/{{High and Low|1963}}'' (1963) by Creator/AkiraKurosawa. ''So Long As You Both Shall Live'' and ''Jigsaw'' were also adapted for ''Series/{{Columbo}}'' (as "No Time To Die" and "Undercover" respectively, with Arthur Brown joining Columbo in the latter).
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** The Swedish procedural, ''TheLaughingPoliceman'', about a mass shooting on a Stockholm bus, with a member of the Violence Squad among the victims, turns on exactly the same sort of obscure dying utterance [[spoiler:which the cops misunderstand because he has an American accent]].
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** The Swedish procedural, ''TheLaughingPoliceman'', ''The Laughing Policeman'', about a mass shooting on a Stockholm bus, with a member of the Violence Squad among the victims, turns on exactly the same sort of obscure dying utterance [[spoiler:which the cops misunderstand because he has an American accent]].
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* NeverSuicide: ''Shotgun'', although the detectives see through it straight away.
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* TreasureMap: ''Jigsaw''.
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* AccidentalKidnapping: ''King's Ransom''.
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** A drunk sailor in ''The Mugger'' says his ship is "U S S Huntuh".
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* LoveLetter: A series of erotic ones left behind by a murder victim in ''Widows''.
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* ConMan: Several in the fourth book of the series.
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* JustGotOutOfJail: Subplot of ''Heat'', where a recently released prison inmate is out for revenge on the man who arrested him - Bert Kling.
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* TheStoolPigeon: Danny Gimp, useful informant.
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* ExtremelyShortTimespan: Some books take place over the course of a single day.
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* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: The entire roster of the 87th (up to that time) only appears in one book -- the appropriately named ''Hail, Hail, the Gang's All Here''.
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* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: The entire roster of the 87th (up to that time) only appears in one book -- the appropriately named ''Hail, Hail, the Gang's All Here''.Here'', the [[MilestoneCelebration 25th]] of the series.
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* TheChessmaster: The Deaf Man
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* CaughtOnTape: Crucial evidence in [[spoiler:''Doll'']] and [[spoiler:''Bread'']].
* TheChessmaster: The DeafMan Man.
* TheChessmaster: The Deaf
* GangBangers: ''Hail to the Chief''.
* OneLetterTitle: 'J' in ''The Empty Hours''.
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* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: The Deaf ManMan.
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* PoliticallyIncorrectHero: Fat Ollie Weeks
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* PoliticallyIncorrectHero: Fat Ollie WeeksWeeks.
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* SecretDiary: Belonging to the victim in [[spoiler:''Blood Relatives'']].
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* DeadPersonImpersonation: In [[spoiler:''Shotgun'']] and [[spoiler: ''Tricks'']].
* DeadpanSnarker: Meyer, often.
* DeadpanSnarker: Meyer, often.
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* SerialKillingsSpecificTarget: [[spoiler:''Cop Hater'']] and [[spoiler:''Long Time, No See'']]
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* SerialKillingsSpecificTarget: [[spoiler:''Cop Hater'']] and Hater'']], [[spoiler:''Long Time, No See'']]See'']] and [[spoiler:''Mischief'']].
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* ChristmasEpisode: ''The Pusher'', ''Sadie When She Died'', ''Ghosts'', ''Money Money Money''
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* ChristmasEpisode: ''The Pusher'', ''Sadie When She Died'', ''Ghosts'', ''Eight Black Horses'', ''Money Money Money''
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[[caption-width-right:292:A typical book cover for the series.]]
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* CreatorCameo:
** ''Axe'':
-->"Who wrote ''Strangers When We Meet''?."
** The opening line of ''The Blackboard Jungle'' is quoted in ''Killer's Payoff''.
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-->"Who wrote ''Strangers When We Meet''?."
** The opening line of ''The Blackboard Jungle'' is quoted in ''Killer's Payoff''.
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* ComicBookTime: The same cast of characters were used for the entire 49 year run of the series. This caused characters who has military service in World War II to be rewritten so that their service occurred during Vietnam, the First Gulf War, etc.
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* ComicBookTime: The same cast of characters were used for the entire 49 year 49-year run of the series. This caused necessitated revisions over time, such as characters who has originally had seen military service in World War II to be getting rewritten so that their service occurred during Korea, Vietnam, the First Gulf War, etc.
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* ParanormalEpisode: ''Ghosts'' is the only novel to feature supernatural, and with Det. Steve Carella seemingly being saved by a ghost.
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* The AdjectivalMan: The recurring villain the Deaf Man, a cold-bloodedly vicious criminal with a ComplexityAddiction who is [[VillainExitStageLeft usually beaten but never caught]]. He's sometimes been seen wearing a hearing aid, has described himself as "hard of hearing", and tends to use aliases alluding to deafness [[ThisIsMyNameOnForeign in different languages]], such as "L. Sordo" and "Taubman". Whether he actually is deaf or if it's an affectation is unknown.
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* The AdjectivalMan: TheAdjectivalMan: The recurring villain the Deaf Man, a cold-bloodedly vicious criminal with a ComplexityAddiction who is [[VillainExitStageLeft usually beaten but never caught]]. He's sometimes been seen wearing a hearing aid, has described himself as "hard of hearing", and tends to use aliases alluding to deafness [[ThisIsMyNameOnForeign in different languages]], such as "L. Sordo" and "Taubman". Whether he actually is deaf or if it's an affectation is unknown.
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* The AdjectivalMan: The recurring villain the Deaf Man, a cold-bloodedly vicious criminal with a ComplexityAddiction who is [[VillainExitStageLeft usually beaten but never caught]]. He's sometimes been seen wearing a hearing aid, has described himself as "hard of hearing", and tends to use aliases alluding to deafness [[ThisIsMyNameOnForeign in different languages]], such as "L. Sordo" and "Taubman". Whether he actually is deaf or if it's an affectation is unknown.
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** ''So Long As You Both Shall Live'' in which Bert Kling's wife Augusta is kidnapped after the actual wedding [[spoiler: by a StalkerWithACrush who wants to have sex with her and then kill her. [[DrivenToSuicide And then himself]].]]
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** ''So Long As as You Both Shall Live'' Live'', in which Bert Kling's wife Augusta is kidnapped after the actual wedding [[spoiler: by a StalkerWithACrush who wants to have sex with her and then kill her. [[DrivenToSuicide And then himself]].]]
