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* ClingyJealousGirl: gender-bent and gay equivalent. In ''Thus Was Adonis Murdered'', Kenneth Dunfermline is in passionate, all-consuming love with Ned, who in return doesn't take his feelings very seriously at all, being described by a third party as 'flighty' and happy to return advances from others. Not to mention his sleeping with Julia. [[spoiler: Kenneth and Ned are working a scam in which Ned impersonates the heir to an immense fortune; Ned has many, many, second thoughts once the actual heir is murdered--and [[DrivenToSuicide his final letter]] to Kenneth mentions that Ned's worked out that one of the reasons Kenneth talked him into the con is that it will effectively cut Ned off from anyone and everyone who knew him before, as well as preventing anyone else from getting close enough to discover the truth in the future--in other words, [[{{Yandere}} Kenneth gets Ned completely isolated and all to himself]] forever.]]

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* ClingyJealousGirl: gender-bent ClingyJealousGirl:
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and gay equivalent. In equivalent: in ''Thus Was Adonis Murdered'', Kenneth Dunfermline is in passionate, all-consuming love with Ned, who in return doesn't take his feelings very seriously at all, being described by a third party as 'flighty' and happy to return advances from others. Not to mention his sleeping with Julia. [[spoiler: Kenneth and Ned are working a scam in which Ned impersonates the heir to an immense fortune; Ned has many, many, second thoughts once the actual heir is murdered--and [[DrivenToSuicide his final letter]] to Kenneth mentions that Ned's worked out that one of the reasons Kenneth talked him into the con is that it will effectively cut Ned off from anyone and everyone who knew him before, as well as preventing anyone else from getting close enough to discover the truth in the future--in other words, [[{{Yandere}} Kenneth gets Ned completely isolated and all to himself]] forever.]]
** Non-romantic equivalent: Daphne in ''The Sybil in Her Grave'' latches onto Maurice and clearly resents the hell out of his relationship with Derek. [[spoiler: She steals the Virgil frontispiece so Maurice will think Derek is responsible, then gradually isolates Maurice from all his other friends as well.
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* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: Cantrip mentions that he's been asked by his old friend Clementine Derwent to go with her to Jersey and advise on a case there. Julia instantly turns icy and acts like a jealous girlfriend. Since the romance between Julia and Cantrip is long over, Hilary is confused, until Julia makes a few pointed remarks about how the only reason a UK lawyer would be needed in the Channel Islands would be for tax stuff, and since tax law is her specialty, and not Cantrip's...
-->"The chagrin of a woman displaced in her lover’s affections is as nothing compared with that of a barrister superseded in the favour of a leading firm of solicitors. "


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** In ''The Sibyl in Her Grave'', Maurice's most treasured possession is an illuminated frontispiece of Virgil's Second Eclogue - a poem narrated by an older shepherd who is passionately in love with a beautiful young man. Comparisons are often drawn between vicars and shepherds, so Maurice falling head over heels for Derek[[spoiler:/Terry]] shouldn't be that surprising.

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