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* AssholeVictim: Played with; the members of the League under threat played a genuinely mean prank on Chapin that resulted in him becoming severely injured when they were younger. But that was decades ago, they immediately expressed genuine remorse for what they did, and have done all they could over the years to try and make up for it. While Chapin's bitterness isn't exactly unjustified, he's clearly shown to be warped by that bitterness and unreasonable. [[spoiler: And Ferdinand Bowen, the member of the League most clearly depicted as a jerk, turns out to be a murderer.]]
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* AssholeVictim: Played with; the members of the League under threat played a genuinely mean prank on Chapin that resulted in him becoming severely injured and permanently handicapped when they were younger. But that That was decades ago, they immediately expressed genuine remorse for what they did, and have done all they could over the years to try and make up for it. While Chapin's bitterness isn't exactly unjustified, he's clearly shown to be warped by that bitterness and unreasonable. [[spoiler: And Ferdinand Bowen, the member of the League most clearly depicted as a jerk, turns out to be a murderer.]]
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* CreatorBreakdown: In-universe; Paul Chapin is a novelist who has written some exceedingly violent books in which versions of his friends, whom he blames for an injury that crippled him years ago when they were at Harvard, meet with very unpleasant ends. This has partly convinced them that he is the one who has murdered two of their number and possibly a third. [[spoiler: Wolfe, however, is insightful enough to realize that Chapin, although violently hateful of his friends, in fact is incapable of murder, and so merely writes about it and is manipulating their fear of him to get revenge. Once Wolfe exposes that he's innocent and thwarts his campaign of terror, Chapin resolves to include Wolfe as a character in his next novel - and bring ''that'' character to a violent end.]]
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* CreatorBreakdown: In-universe; Paul Chapin is a novelist who has written some exceedingly violent books in which versions of his friends, whom he (rightly) blames for an injury that crippled him years ago when they were at Harvard, meet with very unpleasant ends. This has partly convinced them that he is the one who has murdered two of their number and possibly a third. [[spoiler: Wolfe, however, is insightful enough to realize that Chapin, although violently hateful of his friends, in fact is incapable of murder, and so merely writes about it and is manipulating their fear of him to get revenge. Once Wolfe exposes that he's innocent and thwarts his campaign of terror, Chapin resolves to include Wolfe as a character in his next novel - and bring ''that'' character to a violent end.]]
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** In this book, Wolfe does a financial background check on each of the members of the League and uses this to calculate a reasonable fee that each man can contribute towards the overall total. In later books, he'll mainly just charge his clients incredibly large amounts without such considerations. Perhaps to mitigate the possible unsympathetic aspects that this might create, later books will also usually establish Wolfe's clients to be either independently wealthy, in circumstances that will secure them great wealth, or large business entities that can collectively afford the cost, whereas in this book it is clearly established that several members of the League have fallen on hard financial times, and Wolfe is simply offering them the opportunity to participate if so they wish.
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** In this book, Wolfe does a financial background check on each of the members of the League and uses this to calculate a reasonable fee that each man can contribute towards the overall total. In later books, he'll mainly just charge his clients incredibly large amounts without such considerations. Perhaps to mitigate the possible unsympathetic aspects that this might create, later books will also usually establish Wolfe's clients to be either independently wealthy, in circumstances that will secure them great wealth, or large business entities that can collectively afford the cost, whereas cost. By contrast, in this book it is clearly established that several members of the League have fallen on hard financial times, and Wolfe is simply offering them the opportunity to participate on affordable terms if so they wish.
