- Aluminum Christmas Trees: Critics at the time doubted that the method of murder would work. Not only would it work, it was actually employed by a number of real-life murderers.
- Complete Monster: Mary Whittaker cold-bloodedly murders her doting great-aunt; sacks, hunts down and murders her innocent maidservant; seduces and murders a trusting village girl; attempts to drug and murder both Lord Peter and an unsuspecting solicitor; bludgeons and attempts to murder Miss Climpson (who was collecting for charity at the time) and tries to have her distant cousin, a devoted clergyman, hanged for her crimes. Her only motive was securing an inheritance that she would almost certainly have received anyway.
- Hilarious in Hindsight: A killer who kills leaving no trace except heart failure. I wonder how he or she does it...
- Values Resonance: The culprit is an outwardly-wholesome white girl playing the Wounded Gazelle Gambit by murdering someone, faking her own kidnapping, and pretending they were victims of a Scary Minority Suspect.
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