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* HeroesWantRedheads: Maggie Jenn has a fantastically beautiful red mane that Garrett adores. [[spoiler: It's a wig.]]
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* GambitRoulette: Multiple parties are looking for old books that contain the secret of the Eagle's treasure that they think Garrett might possess. This includes attempting to befriend, betray, or eliminate Garrett without him knowing why. [[spoiler: The Eagle's treasure was lost at sea.]]
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* XanatosGambitRoulette: Multiple parties are looking for old books that contain the secret of the Eagle's treasure that they think Garrett might possess. This includes attempting to befriend, betray, or eliminate Garrett without him knowing why. [[spoiler: The Eagle's treasure was lost at sea.]]
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* DownerEnding: [[spoiler: Garrett ends up killing Maggie Jenn, assuming she's actually the Rainmaker. She is but also in love with him. The treasure was lost long ago. Oh and human supremacists are slowly taking over the country.]]
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* HeroesWantRedheads: Maggie Jenn has a fantastically beautiful red mane that Garrett adores. [[spoiler: It's a wig.]]
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* WholePlotReference: Garrett being kidnapped and locked up in an asylum is from ''Literature/FarewellMyLovely.''
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[[caption-width-right:244:Deadly clients. Lovely clients.]]
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''Deadly Quicksilver Lies'' is the seventh book of the Literature/GarrettPI books by Creator/GlenCook. It is a FantasticNoir series set in a HighFantasy world. Garrett is a private investigator, former Marine, and KnightInSourArmor working to solve a variety of cases with all the witches as well as other creatures about him.
Garrett has no backup other than the Goddamn Parrot when Dean goes out of town and Dead Man enters a particularly deep sleep. Thankfully, he has a new job when Winger directs a beautiful client to his doorstep: Maggie Jenn, the former mistress of Tunfaire's former king. Maggie's daughter, Emerald, has disappeared and she wants Garrett to find her.
Garrett soon finds himself in a complicated case he's kidnapped and thrown into a mental institution by a mysterious criminal known as "The Rainmaker." What is the Rainmaker's relationship to Maggie Jenn and how does a lost treasure have to do with it?
It is followed by ''Literature/DeadlyQuicksilverLies''.
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!! ''Deadly Quicksilver Lies'' has the following tropes:
* AllForNothing: [[spoiler: All the efforts to find the treasure is pointless because it was lost under the sea centuries ago.]]
* BigCreepyCrawlies: The "little booger" from ''Deadly Quicksilver Lies'' isn't all that big, but [[spoiler: it does enough damage for a whole swarm of BigCreepyCrawlies]].
* CreepyCrossdresser: [[spoiler: Grange Cleaver and Maggie Jenn are the same person. Garrett assumes that Grange is the real identity. He's wrong.]]
* DraftDodging: A royal bureaucrat turns up looking for the Rainmaker, who's not on record as having served his five years in the Cantard. [[spoiler: For a good reason: Grange "the Rainmaker" Cleaver was the alternate identity of Maggie Jenn, and women aren't subject to Karentine military conscription unless they're sorcerers.]]
* FragileSpeedster: The "little booger" from ''Deadly Quicksilver Lies''.
* ItsQuietTooQuiet: Garrett Lampshades it to Eleanor in the aftermath of ''Deadly Quicksilver Lies''.
* TheLittleShopThatWasntThereYesterday: The witch Handsome from ''Deadly Quicksilver Lies'' runs one.
* OneSteveLimit: In a nickname example, both the witch Garrett consults in ''Deadly Quicksilver Lies'' and the security guard at the World building site from ''Cruel Zinc Melodies'' go by "Handsome".
* PlanetOfSteves: The main reason Garrett didn't like ''No Ravens Went Hungry'', the historical trilogy of books from ''Deadly Quicksilver Lies'', was that far too many of its characters had virtually-identical names.
* SchmuckBait: The small box Handsome lends to Garrett in ''Deadly Quicksilver Lies''. [[spoiler: Even ''after'' it starts to buzz menacingly and one of his thugs warns him, Davenport still opens it and unleashes the deadly "little booger" on himself.]]
* ShaggyDogStory: The treasure of Eagle, sought by many competing parties in [[spoiler: fell into the sea and was lost centuries ago. And the Dead Man knew it all along, but nobody asked.]]
* SweetPollyOliver: [[spoiler: Maggie Jenn was actually the Rainmaker the entire time and assumed to be a gay man while she was fighting in the war.]]
* UnsettlingGenderReveal: [[spoiler: {{Subverted}}. Garrett finds out the Rainmaker and Maggie Jenn are the same person but makes the mistake that Maggie is a man versus the reverse.]]
* WorldsMostBeautifulWoman: Maggie Jenn in her heyday. Even as a middle aged mother, she is easily one of the loveliest creatures that Garrett has ever seen.
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Garrett has no backup other than the Goddamn Parrot when Dean goes out of town and Dead Man enters a particularly deep sleep. Thankfully, he has a new job when Winger directs a beautiful client to his doorstep: Maggie Jenn, the former mistress of Tunfaire's former king. Maggie's daughter, Emerald, has disappeared and she wants Garrett to find her.
Garrett soon finds himself in a complicated case he's kidnapped and thrown into a mental institution by a mysterious criminal known as "The Rainmaker." What is the Rainmaker's relationship to Maggie Jenn and how does a lost treasure have to do with it?
It is followed by ''Literature/DeadlyQuicksilverLies''.
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!! ''Deadly Quicksilver Lies'' has the following tropes:
* AllForNothing: [[spoiler: All the efforts to find the treasure is pointless because it was lost under the sea centuries ago.]]
* BigCreepyCrawlies: The "little booger" from ''Deadly Quicksilver Lies'' isn't all that big, but [[spoiler: it does enough damage for a whole swarm of BigCreepyCrawlies]].
* CreepyCrossdresser: [[spoiler: Grange Cleaver and Maggie Jenn are the same person. Garrett assumes that Grange is the real identity. He's wrong.]]
* DraftDodging: A royal bureaucrat turns up looking for the Rainmaker, who's not on record as having served his five years in the Cantard. [[spoiler: For a good reason: Grange "the Rainmaker" Cleaver was the alternate identity of Maggie Jenn, and women aren't subject to Karentine military conscription unless they're sorcerers.]]
* FragileSpeedster: The "little booger" from ''Deadly Quicksilver Lies''.
* ItsQuietTooQuiet: Garrett Lampshades it to Eleanor in the aftermath of ''Deadly Quicksilver Lies''.
* TheLittleShopThatWasntThereYesterday: The witch Handsome from ''Deadly Quicksilver Lies'' runs one.
* OneSteveLimit: In a nickname example, both the witch Garrett consults in ''Deadly Quicksilver Lies'' and the security guard at the World building site from ''Cruel Zinc Melodies'' go by "Handsome".
* PlanetOfSteves: The main reason Garrett didn't like ''No Ravens Went Hungry'', the historical trilogy of books from ''Deadly Quicksilver Lies'', was that far too many of its characters had virtually-identical names.
* SchmuckBait: The small box Handsome lends to Garrett in ''Deadly Quicksilver Lies''. [[spoiler: Even ''after'' it starts to buzz menacingly and one of his thugs warns him, Davenport still opens it and unleashes the deadly "little booger" on himself.]]
* ShaggyDogStory: The treasure of Eagle, sought by many competing parties in [[spoiler: fell into the sea and was lost centuries ago. And the Dead Man knew it all along, but nobody asked.]]
* SweetPollyOliver: [[spoiler: Maggie Jenn was actually the Rainmaker the entire time and assumed to be a gay man while she was fighting in the war.]]
* UnsettlingGenderReveal: [[spoiler: {{Subverted}}. Garrett finds out the Rainmaker and Maggie Jenn are the same person but makes the mistake that Maggie is a man versus the reverse.]]
* WorldsMostBeautifulWoman: Maggie Jenn in her heyday. Even as a middle aged mother, she is easily one of the loveliest creatures that Garrett has ever seen.
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