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* CharactersMostHatedSong: the title character, prior to his disappearance, despises the {{jingle}} for Mrs. Carillon's Pomato Soup (ToTheTuneOf "On Wisconsin"), saying that it'll be the death of him. [[spoiler:Many pages later, it literally is.]]
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''The Mysterious Disappearance of Leon (I Mean Noel)'' is a children's mystery novel by Ellen Raskin.
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* FlowersOfRomance: [[spoiler:Augie Kunkel, Mrs. Carillon [[ChildhoodFriendRomance childhood playmate]],]] gives Mrs. Carillon yellow roses, her favorite kind of flower.
* GivingSomeoneThePointerFinger: Mr. Banks, trustee of the Carillon fortune, points his finger at Mrs. Carillon while he lectures her about how her pointless search for her husband is ruining the business.
* GivingSomeoneThePointerFinger: Mr. Banks, trustee of the Carillon fortune, points his finger at Mrs. Carillon while he lectures her about how her pointless search for her husband is ruining the business.
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* LegallyDead: Mr. Banks, trustee of the Carillon fortune, tells Mrs. Carillon that Noel is legally dead, and that if he were still alive he would have asked for money sometime in the last twenty years. Mrs. Carillon is convinced that he has amnesia and is still alive somewhere.
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* LegallyDead: Mr. Banks, trustee of the Carillon fortune, Banks tells Mrs. Carillon that Noel is legally dead, and that if he were still alive he would have asked for money sometime in the last twenty years. Mrs. Carillon is convinced that he has amnesia and is still alive somewhere.
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* StartingANewLife: [[spoiler:Noel fled the soup industry to start a new life as jockey Seymour Hall. He couldn't bring himself to tell Mrs. Carillon, so he told his friend Pinky to give her the message, "Noel is Seymour Hall. I am Newton Pinckney."]]
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* WavingSignsAround: Mrs. Carillon and the twins watch a baseball game on TV, where fans hold banners that say things like "Massapequa Loves the Mets." Mrs. Carillon tells the twins to look for "Noel Carillon Loves the Mets."
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** Mrs. Carillon and the twins watch a baseball game on TV, where fans hold banners that say things like "Massapequa Loves the Mets." Mrs. Carillon tells the twins to look for "Noel Carillon Loves the Mets.""
** When Mrs. Carillon is arrested for yelling "Fire" in Bloomingdale's (she was on the up escalator, she thought she saw Noel on the down escalator, and she needed everyone on the up escalator to turn around so she could follow him), Tina and Tony recruit a bunch of hippies for a protest march in front of the Women's House of Detention. They wave signs that say things like "WOMEN'S HOUSE OF DETENTION IS A PEST-HOLE" and "GRAPE MRS. CARILLON," written on a sign left over from the grape workers' boycott.
** Mrs. Carillon and the twins watch a baseball game on TV, where fans hold banners that say things like "Massapequa Loves the Mets." Mrs. Carillon tells the twins to look for "Noel Carillon Loves the Mets.
** When Mrs. Carillon is arrested for yelling "Fire" in Bloomingdale's (she was on the up escalator, she thought she saw Noel on the down escalator, and she needed everyone on the up escalator to turn around so she could follow him), Tina and Tony recruit a bunch of hippies for a protest march in front of the Women's House of Detention. They wave signs that say things like "WOMEN'S HOUSE OF DETENTION IS A PEST-HOLE" and "GRAPE MRS. CARILLON," written on a sign left over from the grape workers' boycott.
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* WavingSignsAround: Mrs. Carillon and the twins watch a baseball game on TV, where fans hold banners that say things like "Massapequa Loves the Mets." Mrs. Carillon tells the twins to look for "Noel Carillon Loves the Mets."
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* LegallyDead: Mr. Banks, trustee of the Carillon fortune, tells Mrs. Carillon that Noel must be dead, or he would have asked for money sometime in the last twenty years. Mrs. Carillon insists on continuing the search.
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* LegallyDead: Mr. Banks, trustee of the Carillon fortune, tells Mrs. Carillon that Noel must be is legally dead, or and that if he were still alive he would have asked for money sometime in the last twenty years. Mrs. Carillon insists on continuing the search.is convinced that he has amnesia and is still alive somewhere.
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* ReallyMovesAround: Mrs. Carillon moves to a new city every two months or so to thoroughly search it for any sign of Noel. She eventually adopts twin orphans named Tony and Tina, who beg her to settle down so they can make friends, so she buys an apartment in UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity and agrees to stay put from now on.
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* PortmanteauCoupleName: In-universe familial example. Mrs. Carillon calls her adopted twins Tony and Tina "Tiny."
* ReallyMovesAround: Mrs. Carillon moves to a new city every two months or so to thoroughly search it for any sign of Noel.She eventually After she adopts twin orphans named Tony and Tina, who they beg her to settle down so they can make friends, so she buys an apartment in UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity and agrees to stay put from now on.
* ReallyMovesAround: Mrs. Carillon moves to a new city every two months or so to thoroughly search it for any sign of Noel.
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* LimitedWardrobe: Mrs. Carillon wore purple-flowered clothes on her wedding day, and she wore a purple-flowered swimsuit on the day she met Noel so he would recognize her. Since his disappearance, she wears exclusively purple-flowered clothes so he can recognize her if they meet again. When she moves into an apartment, she buys purple-flowered wallpaper, drapes, and furniture, so people can hardly tell her apart from the background.
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''The Mysterious Disappearance of Leon (I Mean Noel) is a children's mystery novel by Ellen Raskin.
Nineteen-year-old heiress Mrs. Carillon is looking forward to meeting her husband Noel, whom she hasn't seen since their wedding day when she was five and he was seven, back when he was still named Leon. But almost as soon as they meet, the two of them are knocked off their boat by a wave, and Noel yells, "Noel ''glub'' C ''blub'' all.. I ''glub'' new..." When Mrs. Carillon wakes up in the hospital, she learns that Noel has checked out and vanished. Mrs. Carillon spends the next twenty years searching for him, using his parting words as her main clue.
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!!''The Mysterious Disappearance of Leon (I Mean Noel)'' contains examples of:
* ArrangedMarriage: Back when Mrs. Carillon was a little girl known as Caroline "Little Dumpling" Fish, her parents and Leon's founded a company called Mrs. Carillon's Pomato Soup. They had a preacher marry their kids to solidify their partnership. Then Leon was sent OffToBoardingSchool, so he and his wife never saw each other for the rest of their childhood.
* HomeschooledKids: Mrs. Carillon was educated at home by her governess, Miss Anna Oglethorpe, a bony woman who was constantly kicking and poking her for daydreaming.
* OnePersonBirthdayParty: Mrs. Carillon's parents forget about her twelfth birthday because of their work, leaving her to sing "Happy Birthday to Me" by herself. Her party is interrupted by the sound of the factory explosion that kills her and Leon's parents.
* ReallyMovesAround: Mrs. Carillon moves to a new city every two months or so to thoroughly search it for any sign of Noel. She eventually adopts twin orphans named Tony and Tina, who beg her to settle down so they can make friends, so she buys an apartment in UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity and agrees to stay put from now on.
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Nineteen-year-old heiress Mrs. Carillon is looking forward to meeting her husband Noel, whom she hasn't seen since their wedding day when she was five and he was seven, back when he was still named Leon. But almost as soon as they meet, the two of them are knocked off their boat by a wave, and Noel yells, "Noel ''glub'' C ''blub'' all.. I ''glub'' new..." When Mrs. Carillon wakes up in the hospital, she learns that Noel has checked out and vanished. Mrs. Carillon spends the next twenty years searching for him, using his parting words as her main clue.
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!!''The Mysterious Disappearance of Leon (I Mean Noel)'' contains examples of:
* ArrangedMarriage: Back when Mrs. Carillon was a little girl known as Caroline "Little Dumpling" Fish, her parents and Leon's founded a company called Mrs. Carillon's Pomato Soup. They had a preacher marry their kids to solidify their partnership. Then Leon was sent OffToBoardingSchool, so he and his wife never saw each other for the rest of their childhood.
* HomeschooledKids: Mrs. Carillon was educated at home by her governess, Miss Anna Oglethorpe, a bony woman who was constantly kicking and poking her for daydreaming.
* OnePersonBirthdayParty: Mrs. Carillon's parents forget about her twelfth birthday because of their work, leaving her to sing "Happy Birthday to Me" by herself. Her party is interrupted by the sound of the factory explosion that kills her and Leon's parents.
* ReallyMovesAround: Mrs. Carillon moves to a new city every two months or so to thoroughly search it for any sign of Noel. She eventually adopts twin orphans named Tony and Tina, who beg her to settle down so they can make friends, so she buys an apartment in UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity and agrees to stay put from now on.
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