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* ShroudedInMystery: 'Monsieur Z', the head of the underworld in Marseilles in "The Headless Hat", to the extent that the majority of his underlings do not know what he looks like.
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* SmithOfTheYardSmithOfTheYard: Colonel March. When he is introduced, people often remark that they have read or heard of him.
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* MoustacheDePlume: In "The Strange Event at Roman Falls", [[MistakenForOwnMurderer the wife of famous reclusive writer is accused of his murder after she reports him falling off the cliff near their home into the sea]]. However, it turns out the writer never existed at all. He was a male ''nom de plume'' created by the woman to allow her to publish her works and be taken seriously. However, after an old romance rekindled, she decided to fake the death of the fake husband to allow her to marry her love.
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* FakinMacGuffin: In "The Case of the Misguided Missal", a university professor forges of a copy of the rare prayer book he is supposed to verifying: planning to fob the university off with the forgery and sell the real missal on the antiquities black market.
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* NeverSuicide: In "Passage of Arms", the killer attempts to make it look like the VictimOfTheWeek committed suicide by leaving an empty bottle of sleeping pills by her body. However, he had actually smothered her with a Vorpal Pillow and then forced some of the pills down her throat after she was dead.
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* NeverSuicide: In "Passage of Arms", the killer attempts to make it look like the VictimOfTheWeek committed suicide by leaving an empty bottle of sleeping pills by her body. However, he had actually smothered her with a Vorpal Pillow VorpalPillow and then forced some of the pills down her throat after she was dead.
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* AsHimself: In "The Case of the Misguided Missal", RealLife StageMagician Chan Canasta appears as himself: brought in by March to demonstrate how the missing book could have been stolen from the safe.
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* StageMagician: In "The Case of the Misguided Missal", stage magician Chan Canasta appears AsHimself: brought in bt March to demonstrate how the missing book could have been stolen from the safe.
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* StageMagician: In "The Case of the Misguided Missal", RealLife stage magician Chan Canasta appears AsHimself: brought in bt by March to demonstrate how the missing book could have been stolen from the safe.
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* StageMagician: In "The Case of the Misguided Missal", stage magician Chan Canasta appears AsHimself: brought in bt March to demonstrate how the missing book could have been stolen from the safe.
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* DisappearingBox: In "The Case of the Misguided Missal", March brings in a StageMagician who uses a miniature version of the disappearing box to demonstrate how the eponymous could have been stolen from the safe. However, even this demonstration turns out to be a piece of misdirection on March's part to allow him to catch the thief off-guard.
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* ClothingCombat: In "The Case of the Misguided Missal", the VictimOfTheWeek is strangled with a scarf. the scarf is then left on the body in an attempt to frame the scarf's owner.
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* DeadMansChest: In "The Case of the Misguided Missal", the body of the VictimOfTheWeek is found stuffed inside a chest in [[LockedRoomMystery a locked room with solid stone walls]] in the university.
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* TeacherStudentRomance: A university professor's desire for one his students becomes a motive for murder in "The Case of the Misguided Missal".
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* BookmarkClue: In "The Stolen Crime", the VictimOfTheWeek is murdered when the killer [[TaintedTobacco douses her cigarettes]] in a PerfectPoison. The killer then enters her room and removes all her cigarettes and empties the ashtrays so there is no evidence of how the poison was administered. However, when March searches the room, he discovers that she had used a cigarette as a bookmark.
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-->"No man can long be in love with mat on which he wipes his feet."
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* ExtremeDoormat: March's niece Emily in "Present Tense". Just before he attempts to murder her, her husband Ernest expresses his contempt by saying:
-->"No man can long be in love with mat on which he wipes his feet."
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* DeathFakedForYou: In "Present Tense", Ernest boards a plane, but changes his mind and leaves before the plane takes off. After the plane crashes, he sees his name on the passenger list and realises the world believes him dead. He decides to take advantage of his supposed demise to [[{{Gaslighting}} trick his wife into committing suicide]], and the reappear and claim her estate.
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* {{Gaslighting}}: In "Present Tense", Ernest, the husband of March's niece Emily, takes advantage of his [[DeathFakedForYou supposed death in a plane crash]] to 'haunt' Emily and attempt to drive her to commit suicide.
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* TaintedTobacco: In "The Stolen Crime", the murderer douses the VictimOfTheWeek's cigarettes in a new insecticide that is [[PerfectPoison colourless, odourless and tasteless]] and vaoprizes easily when heated. After she is dead, the killer removes all of the cigarettes from the room and empties the ashtrays to disguise the cause, but doesn't realise that the victim had been using a cigarette as a bookmark.
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* ThePerfectCrime: In "The Stolen Crime", a man claims to have devised the perfect method of murdering his wife, and begs Ames to lock him up for three days so he can not put it into action. Ames refuses, as no crime has actually been committed. Then the man's wife dies under mysterious circumstances, and March and Ames' suspicions are aroused.
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* ThePerfectCrime: In "The Stolen Crime", a man claims to have devised the perfect method of murdering his wife, and begs Ames to lock him up for three days so he can not put it into action. Ames refuses, as no crime has actually been committed. Then the man's wife dies under mysterious circumstances, and March and Ames' suspicions are aroused. [[spoiler:In reality, the man's mistress stole the method and murdered the wife. She figured that even if the death was detected as murder, the husband would be the logical suspect and take the fall.]]
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* ThePerfectCrime: In "The Stolen Crime", a man claims to have devised the perfect method of murdering his wife, and begs Ames to lock him up for three days so he can not put it into action. Ames refuses, as no crime has actually been committed. Then the man's wife dies under mysterious circumstances, and March and Ames' suspicions are aroused.
* PerfectPoison: In the "The Stolen Crime", a man who believes he has devised ThePerfectCrime describes a new German insecticide that is colourless, odourless and tasteless, that vaporises when heated, and is fatal if inhaled. Later, his wife is poisoned using this exact poison.
* PerfectPoison: In the "The Stolen Crime", a man who believes he has devised ThePerfectCrime describes a new German insecticide that is colourless, odourless and tasteless, that vaporises when heated, and is fatal if inhaled. Later, his wife is poisoned using this exact poison.
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* MistakenForOwnMurderer: In "The Strange Event at Roman Falls", the wife of famous reclusive writer is accused of his murder after she reports him falling off the cliff near their home into the sea. However, it turns out the writer never existed at all. He was a MoustacheDePlume created by the woman to allow her to publish her works and be taken seriously. However, after an old romance rekindled, she decided to fake the death of the fake husband to allow her to marry her love.
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* NeverSuicide: In "Passage of Arms", the killer attempts to make it look like the VictimOfTheWeek committed suicide by leaving an empty bottle of sleeping pills by her body. However, he had actually smothered her with a Vorpal Pillow and then forced some of the pills down her throat after she was dead.
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* NotSoFakePropWeapon: In "Passage of Arms", the killer removes the the safety cap on his fencing foil--revealing a sharpened tip underneath--and attempts to stab his opponent during a fencing bout.
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* PocketProtector: In "Death in the Dressing Room", the killer throws a Javanese throwing dagger at Mrch, but the blade is blocked by the hardback book March is holding.
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* PocketProtector: In "Death in the Dressing Room", the killer throws a Javanese throwing dagger at Mrch, March, but the blade is blocked by the hardback book March is holding.
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* {{Blackmail}}: In "Death in the Dressing Room", the owner of a nightclub is inveigling well-to-do young men into compromising relationships with his dancers, and then using their love letters to blackmail them.
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* NaughtyBirdwatching: In "The New Invisible Man", Major Rodman is a DirtyOldMan who surveys the neighbourhood with his old field glasses, and in particular the house opposite where a pretty young bride lives. All of the street knows of his proclivities. However, while doing so he inadvertently becomes a RearWindowWitness.
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* NaughtyBirdwatching: In "The New Invisible Man", Major Rodman is a DirtyOldMan who surveys the neighbourhood with his old field glasses, and in particular the house opposite where a pretty young bride lives.lives, on the pretext of checking the weather. All of the street knows of his proclivities. However, while doing so he inadvertently becomes a RearWindowWitness.
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* PocketProtector: In "Death in the Dressing Room", the killer throws a Javanese throwing dagger at Mrch, but the blade is blocked by the hardback book March is holding.
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* InspectorLestrade: Inspector Ames usually fails spot the intricacies of a case, ignores any incongruent evidence as inconvenient, and is always keen to arrest the most obvious suspect. However, he is willing to admit that March is usually right, and is the officer that March most relies on at the Yard.
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* HighClassGlass: Baron Novakov, one of the suspects in "The New Invisible Man", is an impecunious European aristocrat living in London who nevertheless wears a smoking jacket and a monocle. It even pops out of his eye in astonishment at one point.
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* TapOnTheHead: In "The New Invisible Man", March is knocked out when a crook lightly [[PistolWhipping raps him on the base of the skull with a pistol]].
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* PistolWhipping: In "The New Invisible Man", March attempts to turn the tables on a crook who has the drop on him, only for the crook to knock him unconscious with his pistol.
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* CarpetRolledCorpse: In "The New Invisible Man", a crook [[TapOnTheHead knocks March out]] and rolls him up in a carpet preparatory to dumping him in the Thames.
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* NaughtyBirdwatching: In "The New Invisible Man", Major Rodman is a DirtyOldMan who surveys the neighbourhood with his old field glasses, and in particular the house opposite where a pretty young bride lives. All of the street knows of his proclivities. However, while doing so he inadvertently becomes a RearWindowWitness.
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* RearWindowWitness: In "The New Invisible Man", a man indulging in some NaughtyBirdwatching claims to have seen a pair of gloves fatally shoot a man in the front room of the house opposite.
