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* ShadowedFaceGlowingEyes: A character has glowing eyes peeking out from a shadowed, usually covered face.
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* HiddenAgendaHero: The hero's motivation is never revealed.
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Compare also WhatIsThisIndex for standard questions characters tend to ask.

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* BelieverFakesEvidence: A believer plants fake evidence to make others believe in the phenomena of their choice.
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* ScaryMinoritySuspect: An immoral-seeming TokenMinority character is portrayed as the obvious suspect of a crime.
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Compare also WhatIsThisIndex for standard questions characters tend to ask.
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* ObfuscatingPostmortemWounds: A killer inflicts additional wounds on a corpse to mask the true cause of death.
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* RcordedAudioAlibi: Someone uses a recording of themselves to establish an alibi.

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* RcordedAudioAlibi: RecordedAudioAlibi: Someone uses a recording of themselves to establish an alibi.
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* RcordedAudioAlibi: Someone uses a recording of themselves to establish an alibi.
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* FakeAlibi: A suspect claims to have [[TheAlibi an alibi]], witnesses confirm, yet the suspect is actually guilty.
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* NeverARunaway: Someone who is said to have run away actually befell some other crime.
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* ProppingUpTheirPatsy: A culprit proclaims the innocence of another suspect to conceal their own culpability or further their own agenda.
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* VaryingCompetencyAlibi: A character is proven innocent when they're shown to be too competent or incompetent to do.
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* TheDogWasTheMastermind: The villain turns out to be a seemingly-harmless character.

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* TheDogWasTheMastermind: The villain turns out to be a seemingly-harmless seemingly harmless and irrelevant character.
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* CorpseTemperatureTampering: Interfering with natural cooling of a dead body to obfuscate time of death.

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+ CopsAndDetectives



+ CopsAndDetectives
+ DetectiveDrama
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+ MysteryStoryCreatorIndex

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+ MysteryFiction
+ MysteryStoryCreatorIndex

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+ HistoricalDetectiveFiction
+ MysteryFiction
+ MysteryLiterature
+ MysteryStoryCreatorIndex
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* CreepyRedHerring: A blantantly creepy suspect is innocent.

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