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* EvilStoleMyFaith: Atticus thinks about God and religion after finding out that he is terminally ill. He no longer believes in God, after the Holocaust and what he saw in the camps.
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** James Fraser once didn't notice that the man sitting next to him on the 3:50 train from Paddington was dead. Christie wrote a book called ''Literature/FourFiftyFromPaddington''.
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* HomemadeSweaterFromHell: When DI Chubb meets Pünd and Fraser, he's wearing "a particularly unfortunate mauve cardigan" knitted by his wife.
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* MythologyGag: Dr. Redwing is from King's Abbott, and her father Dr. Edgar Rennard still lives there. The fictional village of King's Abbott was the setting for one of Agatha Christie's most famous books, ''Literature/TheMurderOfRogerAckroyd'', and ''Magpie Murders'' is an affectionate pastiche of Christie.
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** Played with in ''Moonflower Murders''. Although not technically the epilogue, Susan leaves to go back to Greece and then receives the letter from Lawrence and the [[spoiler:suicide note from Aiden]] which is the final word we hear from the Trehernes or any of the single-book characters.
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** Played with in ''Moonflower Murders''. Although not technically the epilogue, Susan leaves to go back to Greece and then receives the letter from Lawrence and the [[spoiler:suicide note from Aiden]] Aiden]], which is the final word we hear from the Trehernes or any of the single-book characters.
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** Atticus Pünd is a clear stand in for Literature/HerculePoirot, although he's German instead of Belgian and given a backstory of escaping the Holocaust. James Fraser is a stand in for [[TheWatson Captain Hastings]].
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** Atticus Pünd is a clear stand in for Literature/HerculePoirot, although he's German instead of Belgian and given a backstory of escaping the Holocaust. James Fraser is a stand in stand-in for [[TheWatson Captain Hastings]].
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-->'''Susan:''' You'd have thought that after twenty years editing murder mysteries I'd have noticed when I found myself in the middle of one.
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** In true [[Literature/HerculePoirot Poirot]] style, Atticus Pünd gives one of these at the end of ''Magpie Murders'' where he explains who the killer is and how/why they did it. Also, Susan gives one to [[spoiler:Charles Clover]] at the end of her plotline where she explains to them how she figured out they murdered Conway.
** He also gives one in ''Moonflower Murders'', which is invoked by Susan. She says she wanted him to cut it because she found it out of character for Pund to humiliate one of the suspects that way but Conway wouldn't budge.
** He also gives one in ''Moonflower Murders'', which is invoked by Susan. She says she wanted him to cut it because she found it out of character for Pund to humiliate one of the suspects that way but Conway wouldn't budge.
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** In true [[Literature/HerculePoirot Poirot]] style, Atticus Pünd gives one of these at the end of ''Magpie Murders'' where he explains who the killer is and how/why they did it. Also, Susan gives one to [[spoiler:Charles Clover]] at the end of her plotline where she explains to them how she figured out they murdered Conway.
solved Conway's murder.
** He also gives one in ''Moonflower Murders'', which is invoked by Susan. She says she wanted him to cut it because she found it out of character for Pund to humiliate one of the suspects thatway way, but Conway wouldn't budge.
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* AnimalMotifs: All the suspects in the titular book are named after birds: Robin and ''Hen''rietta Osbourne, Emily Redwing, the Weaver family, ''Mag''nus ''Pye''...the sole exception is Doctor Edgar Rennard, since Renard is French for fox. [[spoiler: He's innocent of any murder, however, and his crime- a relatively minor act of fraud, done under coercion- fills him with guilt.]]
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* AnimalMotifs: All the suspects in the titular book are named after birds: Robin and ''Hen''rietta Osbourne, Emily Redwing, the Weaver family, ''Mag''nus ''Pye''...the sole exception is Doctor Edgar Rennard, since Renard is French for fox. [[spoiler: He's innocent of any murder, however, and his crime- crime -- a relatively minor act of fraud, done under coercion- coercion -- fills him with guilt.]]
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* BaitAndSwitch: When Robert comes under suspicion for murdering his mother, his fiancee Joy writes a note that the narrative sets up as shady, talking about how she's nervous to write it and doesn't want him to see it, leading the reader to think she might be trying to blackmail someone or throw suspicion somewhere else. [[spoiler: Turns out she's just writing a public announcement that she stayed at his house all night that night, giving him an alibi, and she's nervous because it's 1955 and she knows she'll get slut-shamed.]]
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* BaitAndSwitch: When Robert comes under suspicion for murdering his mother, his fiancee fiancée Joy writes a note that the narrative sets up as shady, talking about how she's nervous to write it and doesn't want him to see it, leading the reader to think she might be trying to blackmail someone or throw suspicion somewhere else. [[spoiler: Turns out she's just writing a public announcement that she stayed at his house all night that night, giving him an alibi, and she's nervous because it's 1955 and she knows she'll get slut-shamed.]]
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** [[spoiler:Finally, Charles Clover didn't appear to have any motive for killing his best-selling author Alan Conway, but Conway was going to die anyway of cancer and was about to reveal to the world that "Atticus Pünd" was actually an anagram for "a stupid cunt", which would have created an enormous scandal for the company. It's also implied that, like Susan herself, as an avid mystery reader and fan of Atticus Pünd, Clover felt betrayed and insulted by Conway's so-called 'prank'.]]
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** [[spoiler:Finally, Charles Clover didn't appear to have any motive for killing his best-selling author Alan Conway, but Conway was going to die anyway of cancer and was about to reveal to the world that "Atticus Pünd" was actually an anagram for "a stupid cunt", cunt," which would have created an enormous scandal for the company. It's also implied that, like Susan herself, as an avid mystery reader and fan of Atticus Pünd, Clover felt betrayed and insulted by Conway's so-called 'prank'.]]
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* ChekhovsParty: The hunt for the gold piece at Pye Hall. Mentioned offhandedly, [[spoiler: Mary Blakiston's other son Thomas drowned after finding the coin. But Atticus realizes that, because of the detail about Robert's wet trousers, that Robert actually killed Thomas in a fit of jealousy about finding the gold first. This caused Mary to write the letter implicating Robert that could be opened by Magnus in the event of her sudden death, which was why Robert had to kill him]].
* CountryMatters: [[spoiler:Atticus Pünd's name is an anagram of "a stupid cunt." This is the motive for Alan Conway's murder.]]
* DiscriminateAndSwitch: Everyone thinks that one of the reasons Mary Blakiston didn't want her son to marry Joy is that Joy has a brother with Downs Syndrome, meaning their children might inherit it. [[spoiler: Actually, it was ''Robert'' she didn't want to have children, in case they turned out like him. It's implied she also feared Robert might hurt Joy's brother out of jealousy for Joy's love and attention.]]
* CountryMatters: [[spoiler:Atticus Pünd's name is an anagram of "a stupid cunt." This is the motive for Alan Conway's murder.]]
* DiscriminateAndSwitch: Everyone thinks that one of the reasons Mary Blakiston didn't want her son to marry Joy is that Joy has a brother with Downs Syndrome, meaning their children might inherit it. [[spoiler: Actually, it was ''Robert'' she didn't want to have children, in case they turned out like him. It's implied she also feared Robert might hurt Joy's brother out of jealousy for Joy's love and attention.]]
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* ChekhovsParty: The hunt for the gold piece at Pye Hall. Mentioned offhandedly, [[spoiler: Mary Blakiston's other son Thomas drowned after finding the coin. But Atticus realizes that, realizes, because of the detail about Robert's wet trousers, that Robert actually killed Thomas in a fit of jealousy about finding the gold first. This caused Mary to write the letter implicating Robert that could be opened by Magnus in the event of her sudden death, which was why Robert had to kill him]].
* CountryMatters: [[spoiler:Atticus Pünd's name is an anagram of "a stupidcunt." cunt". This is the motive for Alan Conway's murder.]]
* DiscriminateAndSwitch: Everyone thinks that one of the reasons Mary Blakiston didn't want her son to marry Joy is that Joy has a brother withDowns Down's Syndrome, meaning their children might inherit it. [[spoiler: Actually, it was ''Robert'' she didn't want to have children, in case they turned out like him. It's implied she also feared Robert might hurt Joy's brother out of jealousy for Joy's love and attention.]]
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* ExecutiveMeddling: An InUniverse example proves to be a significant plot point; Conway's publishers want to change the title of the final Pünd book to "''The'' Magpie Murders", which Conway is dead set against [[spoiler:because doing so would spoil the acrostic formed by the titles of all nine books]].
* FreudianExcuse: Whatever he might have been later in life, Alan Conway's childhood was utterly horrific; he had few friends and was often beat by his SadistTeacher father.
* HeirClubForMen: [[spoiler: in Conway's novel, it turns out Clarissa was the elder child, and she was the rightful inheritor of Pye Hall. Her father, however, wanted a male heir, and forced Doctor Rennard to lie on the birth certificate and claim Magnus was the elder twin.]]
* FreudianExcuse: Whatever he might have been later in life, Alan Conway's childhood was utterly horrific; he had few friends and was often beat by his SadistTeacher father.
* HeirClubForMen: [[spoiler: in Conway's novel, it turns out Clarissa was the elder child, and she was the rightful inheritor of Pye Hall. Her father, however, wanted a male heir, and forced Doctor Rennard to lie on the birth certificate and claim Magnus was the elder twin.]]
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* ExecutiveMeddling: An InUniverse example proves to be a significant plot point; Conway's publishers want to change the title of the final Pünd book to "''The'' Magpie Murders", Murders," which Conway is dead set against [[spoiler:because doing so would spoil the acrostic formed by the titles of all nine books]].
* FreudianExcuse: Whatever he might have been later in life, Alan Conway's childhood was utterly horrific; he had few friends and was oftenbeat beaten by his SadistTeacher father.
* HeirClubForMen: [[spoiler:in In Conway's novel, it turns out Clarissa was the elder child, and she was the rightful inheritor of Pye Hall. Her father, however, wanted a male heir, and forced Doctor Rennard to lie on the birth certificate and claim Magnus was the elder twin.]]
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* LoveMakesYouEvil: [[spoiler:After being revealed as the killer in Conway's novel, Robert Blakiston tells his fiance Joy that he killed Sir Magnus to protect their future together.]]
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* LoveMakesYouEvil: [[spoiler:After being revealed as the killer in Conway's novel, Robert Blakiston tells his fiance fiancée Joy that he killed Sir Magnus to protect their future together.]]
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* MetaphoricallyTrue: Pünd tells Fraser that [[spoiler:"Matthew Blakiston killed his wife."]] [[spoiler:He didn't. He called her on the phone, which she ran after and tripped over the vacuum lead, breaking her neck.]]
* NarrativeProfanityFilter: Upon realising that [[spoiler:Atticus Pünd's name is an anagram of "a stupid cunt", nobody ever says the offending word out loud; Susan just says "a stupid..." and finds the final word too offensive to say, leaving the reader to fill in the blank.]]
* NarrativeProfanityFilter: Upon realising that [[spoiler:Atticus Pünd's name is an anagram of "a stupid cunt", nobody ever says the offending word out loud; Susan just says "a stupid..." and finds the final word too offensive to say, leaving the reader to fill in the blank.]]
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* MetaphoricallyTrue: Pünd tells Fraser that [[spoiler:"Matthew Blakiston killed his wife."]] [[spoiler:He didn't. He called her on the phone, which she ran after and tripped after, tripping over the vacuum lead, lead and breaking her neck.]]
* NarrativeProfanityFilter: Upon realising that [[spoiler:Atticus Pünd's name is an anagram of "a stupidcunt", cunt," nobody ever says the offending word out loud; Susan just says "a stupid..." and finds the final word too offensive to say, leaving the reader to fill in the blank.]]
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* NotTheFirstVictim: In "Pünd's Last Case", Pünd figures out that this trope is subverted in one way, and played straight in another. [[spoiler: Robert killed Magnus Pye, but not his mother, Mary, who is the apparent first victim. It turns out he killed Pye due to having drowned his younger brother as children, and Mary, who knew, had left a confession with Pye in the event of her sudden death, because she suspected that Robert would kill her too.]]
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* NotTheFirstVictim: In "Pünd's Last Case", Pünd figures out that this trope is subverted in one way, and played straight in another. [[spoiler: Robert killed Magnus Pye, but not his mother, Mary, who is the apparent first victim. It turns out he killed Pye due to having drowned his younger brother as children, and Mary, who knew, had left a confession with Pye in the event of her sudden death, death because she suspected that Robert would kill her too.]]
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* OrgyOfEvidence: When someone mails Susan what appears to be a photograph of the murder, it only convinces here that that person did NOT do it. Someone is trying to hard to put him in the frame.
* PaedoHunt: Although no one within the StoryWithinAStory seems to realize it, Brant, the local groundskeeper is heavily implied to be a pedophile, being an aging bachelor whose noted as watching boys swimming on occasion.
* PaedoHunt: Although no one within the StoryWithinAStory seems to realize it, Brant, the local groundskeeper is heavily implied to be a pedophile, being an aging bachelor whose noted as watching boys swimming on occasion.
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* OrgyOfEvidence: When someone mails Susan what appears to be a photograph of the murder, it only convinces here that that person did NOT ''not'' do it. Someone is trying to hard to too put him in the frame.
* PaedoHunt: Although no one within the StoryWithinAStory seems to realize it, Brant, the localgroundskeeper groundskeeper, is heavily implied to be a pedophile, being an aging bachelor whose who's noted as watching boys swimming on occasion.
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* StylisticSuck: Played with. The novel-within—a-novel ‘Magpie Murders’ is a well written and constructed Christie pastiche that would be worth reading even without the framing story. On the other hand, Conway’s unpublished novel ‘The Slide’ is truly terrible from the extract we are shown.
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* StylisticSuck: Played with. The novel-within—a-novel ‘Magpie Murders’ novel-within-a-novel ''Magpie Murders'' is a well written and constructed Christie pastiche that would be worth reading even without the framing story. On the other hand, Conway’s unpublished novel ‘The Slide’ ''The Slide'' is truly terrible from the extract we are shown.
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* VillainWithGoodPublicity: [[spoiler:Charles Clover is such a well-respected businessman within the publishing industry that even after he gets arrested for murdering Alan Conway, his peers are more angry at ''Susan'' for ending his career since none of them liked Alan to begin with and Charles "only killed one writer."]]
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* VillainWithGoodPublicity: [[spoiler:Charles Clover is such a well-respected businessman within the publishing industry that even after he gets arrested for murdering Alan Conway, his peers are more angry angrier at ''Susan'' for ending his career since none of them liked Alan to begin with and Charles "only killed one writer."]]
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* TheWrongfulHeirToTheThrone: [[spoiler: it ultimately turns out that Magnus's sister should have inherited the family seat instead of him]].
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* TheWrongfulHeirToTheThrone: [[spoiler: it It ultimately turns out that Magnus's sister should have inherited the family seat instead of him]].
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* CheatedDeathDiedAnyway: In ''Atticus Pünd Takes The Case'', [[spoiler:Melissa is strangled by her husband.]] She is still alive, just unconscious, when she [[spoiler:calls her boyfriend to come over, and then ''he''' kills her, also via strangulation.]]
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* CheatedDeathDiedAnyway: In ''Atticus Pünd Takes The Case'', [[spoiler:Melissa is strangled by her husband.]] She is still alive, just nearly unconscious, when she [[spoiler:calls her boyfriend to come over, and then ''he''' ''he'' kills her, also via strangulation.]]
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* EvilCripple and MentalHandicapMoralDeficiency: In Conway's novel, Eric isn't a murderer, but he is ThePeepingTom who is presented as stunted specifically because of his club foot and as though this is somehow linked to his. Susan notes how unfortunate this is in-universe.
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* EvilCripple and MentalHandicapMoralDeficiency: In Conway's novel, Eric isn't a murderer, but he is ThePeepingTom who is presented as stunted specifically because of his club foot and treated as though this is somehow linked to his.his cognitive issues. Susan notes how unfortunate this is in-universe.
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* GoodAdulteryBadAdultery: Bad adultery is Susan's considered affair with Craig (though she doesn't actually do it), and Melissa's in-story affair with [[spoiler:Leonard, who murdered her to conceal it]]; good adultery is [[spoiler:Cecily cheating on the sociopathic Aiden, who eventually murdered ''her'', with Stefan.]] .
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* GoodAdulteryBadAdultery: Bad adultery is Susan's considered affair with Craig (though she doesn't actually do it), and Melissa's in-story affair with [[spoiler:Leonard, who murdered her to conceal it]]; good adultery is [[spoiler:Cecily cheating on the sociopathic Aiden, who eventually murdered ''her'', with Stefan.]] . ]]
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* NameOfCain: Madeline Cain, Atticus's GirlFriday in the novel within a novel. [[spoiler:She murdered Melissa's husband for thinking he killed Melissa, of whom she was a LoonyFan, and shows zero remorse because he was keeping her from the screen, even after finding out that she was wrong.]]
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* NameOfCain: Madeline Cain, Atticus's GirlFriday in the novel within a novel.novel-within-a-novel. [[spoiler:She murdered Melissa's husband for thinking he killed Melissa, of whom she was a LoonyFan, and shows zero remorse because he was keeping her from the screen, even after finding out that she was wrong.]]
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* PredatoryProstitute: Male prostitute Leo is suspected of having murdered Frank Parrish in revenge for his brutal "'sex games". [[spoiler:And he did. Even worse, "Leo" is actually Aiden, Cecily's husband, married her exclusively for her money, and then killed Frank because he tried to force him into having sex on their wedding night.]]
* ShadyRealEstateAgent: [[spoiler:Aiden met his wife Cecily while he was showing her a house - and he was also [[HouseSquatting squatting]] in a swish flat so he could appear wealthy, and using it to [[PredatoryProstitute prostitute himself.]] Although he worked at a hotel by then, he also murdered Cecily when she found out that he'd killed one of his clients.]]
* ShadyRealEstateAgent: [[spoiler:Aiden met his wife Cecily while he was showing her a house - and he was also [[HouseSquatting squatting]] in a swish flat so he could appear wealthy, and using it to [[PredatoryProstitute prostitute himself.]] Although he worked at a hotel by then, he also murdered Cecily when she found out that he'd killed one of his clients.]]
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* PredatoryProstitute: Male prostitute Leo is suspected of having murdered Frank Parrish in revenge for his brutal "'sex "sex games". [[spoiler:And he did. Even worse, "Leo" is actually Aiden, Cecily's husband, married her exclusively for her money, and then killed Frank because he tried to force him into having sex on their wedding night.]]
* ShadyRealEstateAgent: [[spoiler:Aiden met his wife Cecily while he was showing her a house- -- and he was also [[HouseSquatting squatting]] in a swish flat so he could appear wealthy, and using it to [[PredatoryProstitute prostitute himself.]] Although he worked at a hotel by then, he also murdered Cecily when she found out that he'd killed one of his clients.]]
* ShadyRealEstateAgent: [[spoiler:Aiden met his wife Cecily while he was showing her a house
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** Susan, as Alan's editor, said she found the character of Eric Chandler very unsavory, given that he was ThePeepingTom who watched Melissa dress, and felt he should receive more of a comeuppance in "Atticus ''Atticus Pünd Takes The Case".Case''.
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* EvilCripple and MentalHandicapMoralDeficiency: In Conway's novel, Eric isn't a murderer, but he is ThePeepingTom who is presented as stunted specifically because of his club foot and as though this is somehow linked to his. Susan notes how [[UnfortunateImplications unfortunate]] unfortunate this is in-universe.
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In 2022, ''Magpie Murders'' was made into [[Series/MagpieMurders a series]], starring Creator/LesleyManville as Susan Ryland, Creator/ConlethHill as Alan Conway, and Tim [=McMullan=] as Atticus Pünd.
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In 2022, ''Magpie Murders'' was made into [[Series/MagpieMurders a series]], starring Creator/LesleyManville as Susan Ryland, Ryeland, Creator/ConlethHill as Alan Conway, and Tim [=McMullan=] as Atticus Pünd.
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In 2022, ''Magpie Murders'' was made into [[Series/MagpieMurders a series, series]], starring Creator/LesleyManville as Susan Ryland, Creator/ConlethHill as Alan Conway, and Tim [=McMullan=] as Atticus Pünd.
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In 2022, ''Magpie Murders'' was made into a series, starring Creator/LeslieManville as Susan Ryland, Creator/ConlethHill as Alan Conway, Tim [=McMullan=] as Atticus Pünd, and Creator/DanielMays as [[ActingForTwo Chubb and Locke.]]
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* IdyllicEnglishVillage: The idyllic British village is a common setting both in- and out of universe for the Atticus Pünd novels and Susan Ryland's mystery-solving.
** ''Atticus Pünd Takes The Case'' is set in Tawleigh-on-the-Water in rural Devon, a small town where everybody knows everybody, set around a country hotel. It's an {{expy}} for the equally fictional but no less warm and inviting Branlow Hall in Woodbridge, Suffolk.
** ''Magpie Murders'' is set in the cozy Framlingham, Suffolk, and the book within a book, ''Pünd's Last Case'', is set in a small, ostensibly friendly town in Somerset.
** ''Atticus Pünd Takes The Case'' is set in Tawleigh-on-the-Water in rural Devon, a small town where everybody knows everybody, set around a country hotel. It's an {{expy}} for the equally fictional but no less warm and inviting Branlow Hall in Woodbridge, Suffolk.
** ''Magpie Murders'' is set in the cozy Framlingham, Suffolk, and the book within a book, ''Pünd's Last Case'', is set in a small, ostensibly friendly town in Somerset.
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* ExecutiveMeddling: An InUniverse example proves to be a significant plot point; Conway's publishers want to change the title of the final Pünd book to "''The'' Magpie Murders", which Conway is dead set against [[spoiler:because doing so would spoil the acrostic formed by the titles of all nine books]].
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* ChekhovsSkill: [[spoiler:Cecily's fondness for anagrams. It meant that she was able to figure out that Madeline Cain = Aiden [=McNeil=].]]
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* ChekhovsSkill: [[spoiler:Cecily's fondness for anagrams. It meant that she was able to figure out that Madeline Cain = Aiden [=McNeil=].[=MacNeil=].]]
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* EvilCounterpart: [[spoiler:Aiden]] is one for [[spoiler:James Frazer. Both are young GoldDigger men who were paid for sex by wealthy older men; while James genuinely grew to care for Alan, Aiden always hated being forced to have very violent sex with Frank, and then murdered him for trying to blackmail him for sex on his wedding night to Cecily.]]
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* EvilCounterpart: [[spoiler:Aiden]] is one for [[spoiler:James Frazer.Taylor. Both are young GoldDigger men who were paid for sex by wealthy older men; while James genuinely grew to care for Alan, Aiden always hated being forced to have very violent sex with Frank, and then murdered him for trying to blackmail him for sex on his wedding night to Cecily.]]
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* EvilCripple and MentalHandicapMoralDeficiency: In Conway's novel, Eric isn't a murderer, but he is a PeepingTom who is presented as stunted specifically because of his club foot and as though this is somehow linked to his. Susan notes how [[UnfortunateImplications unfortunate]] this is in-universe.
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* EvilCripple and MentalHandicapMoralDeficiency: In Conway's novel, Eric isn't a murderer, but he is a PeepingTom ThePeepingTom who is presented as stunted specifically because of his club foot and as though this is somehow linked to his. Susan notes how [[UnfortunateImplications unfortunate]] this is in-universe.
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** Susan, as Alan's editor, said she found the character of Eric Chandler very unsavory, given that he was a PeepingTom ThePeepingTom who watched Melissa dress, and felt he should receive more of a comeuppance in "Atticus Pünd Takes The Case".
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* ShadyRealEstateAgent: [[spoiler:Adrian met his wife Cecily while he was showing her a house - and he was also [[HouseSquatting squatting]] in a swish flat so he could appear wealthy, and using it to [[PredatoryProstitute prostitute himself.]] Although he worked at a hotel by then, he also murdered Cecily when she found out that he'd killed one of his clients.]]
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* ShadyRealEstateAgent: [[spoiler:Adrian [[spoiler:Aiden met his wife Cecily while he was showing her a house - and he was also [[HouseSquatting squatting]] in a swish flat so he could appear wealthy, and using it to [[PredatoryProstitute prostitute himself.]] Although he worked at a hotel by then, he also murdered Cecily when she found out that he'd killed one of his clients.]]
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* ShadyRealEstateAgent: [[spoiler:Adrian met his wife Cecily while he was showing her a house - and he was also [[HouseSquatting squatting]] in a swish flat so he could appear wealthy, and using it to [[PredatoryProstitute prostitute himself.]] Although he worked at a hotel by then, he also murdered Cecily when she found out that he'd killed one of his clients.]]
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* DiscriminateAndSwitch: Everyone thinks that one of the reasons Mary Blakiston didn't want her son to marry Joy is that Joy has a brother with Downs, meaning their children might inherit it. [[spoiler: Actually, it was ''Robert'' she didn't want to have children, in case they turned out like him. It's implied she also feared Robert might hurt Joy's brother out of jealousy for Joy's love and attention.]]
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* DiscriminateAndSwitch: Everyone thinks that one of the reasons Mary Blakiston didn't want her son to marry Joy is that Joy has a brother with Downs, Downs Syndrome, meaning their children might inherit it. [[spoiler: Actually, it was ''Robert'' she didn't want to have children, in case they turned out like him. It's implied she also feared Robert might hurt Joy's brother out of jealousy for Joy's love and attention.]]
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* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: [[spoiler:Robert genuinely adores both Joy and their (unborn) baby.]]
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* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: [[spoiler:Robert might be a "psychopath" who murdered his younger brother out of jealousy, but he genuinely adores both Joy and their (unborn) baby.]]
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* ChekhovsSkill: [[spoiler:Cecily's fondness for anagrams. It meant that she was able to figure out that Madeline Cain = Adrian [=McNeil=].]]
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* ChekhovsSkill: [[spoiler:Cecily's fondness for anagrams. It meant that she was able to figure out that Madeline Cain = Adrian Aiden [=McNeil=].]]
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** "We've met before." [[spoiler:Susan takes this to mean at the front desk. In reality, Alan recognized Adrian from his sordid past as Leo.]]
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** "We've met before." [[spoiler:Susan takes this to mean at the front desk. In reality, Alan recognized Adrian Aiden from his sordid past as Leo.]]
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* StoryboardBody: Aiden's tattoo is [[spoiler:a Leo symbol, telling Susan that he ''is'' Leo.]]
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* PredatoryProstitute: Male prostitute Leo is suspected of having murdered Frank Parrish in revenge for his brutal "'sex games". [[spoiler:And he did. Even worse, "Leo" is actually Aiden, Cecily's husband, married her exclusively for her money, and then killed Frank because he tried to force him into having sex on their wedding night.]]
* StoryboardBody: Aiden's tattoo is [[spoiler:a Leo symbol, telling Susan that he ''is''Leo.Leo, the prostitute that Frank used.]]
* StoryboardBody: Aiden's tattoo is [[spoiler:a Leo symbol, telling Susan that he ''is''
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* ChekhovsSkill: [[spoiler:Cecily's fondness for anagrams. It meant that she was able to figure out that Madeline Cain = Adrian [=McNeil=].
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* ChekhovsSkill: [[spoiler:Cecily's fondness for anagrams. It meant that she was able to figure out that Madeline Cain = Adrian [=McNeil=]. ]]
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* DepravedHomosexual: Both are also {{AssholeVictim}}s:
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* DepravedHomosexual: Both are also {{AssholeVictim}}s:{{Asshole Victim}}s:
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** Alan Conway is a DeadbeatDad who abandoned his son after coming out as gay, preferring to have sex with prostitutes young enough to ''be'' his son.
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** Alan Conway is a DeadbeatDad DisappearedDad who abandoned his son after coming out as gay, preferring to have sex with prostitutes young enough to ''be'' his son.
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* EpilogueLetter:
** ''Pünd's Last Case'' ends with [[spoiler:Pünd leaving to commit suicide or AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence (depending on your perspective) and writing an emotional letter to his [[TheWatson James Fraser.]]]]
** Played with in ''Moonflower Murders''. Although not technically the epilogue, Susan leaves to go back to Greece and then receives the letter from Lawrence and the [[spoiler:suicide note from Aiden]] which is the final word we hear from the Trehernes or any of the single-book characters.
** ''Pünd's Last Case'' ends with [[spoiler:Pünd leaving to commit suicide or AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence (depending on your perspective) and writing an emotional letter to his [[TheWatson James Fraser.]]]]
** Played with in ''Moonflower Murders''. Although not technically the epilogue, Susan leaves to go back to Greece and then receives the letter from Lawrence and the [[spoiler:suicide note from Aiden]] which is the final word we hear from the Trehernes or any of the single-book characters.
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* FairPlayWhodunnit: Both the novel-within-a-novel ''Magpie Murders'' by Alan Conway and ''Atticus Pünd Takes The Case'' and the present-day frame story fit this trope.
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* FairPlayWhodunnit: Both the novel-within-a-novel ''Magpie Murders'' by Alan Conway and ''Atticus Pünd Takes The Case'' and the present-day frame story fit this trope.trope, as does ''Pünd's Last Case'' (although it requires Susan to find the final chapter to figure out the answer).
* DramaticIrony: In ''Pünd's Last Case'', [[spoiler:Joy hires Pünd to prove that, as she knows, he didn't kill his mother Mary. Unfortunately for her, she doesn't realize that he committed an ''earlier'' murder.]]
* MetaphoricallyTrue: Pünd tells Fraser that [[spoiler:"Matthew Blakiston killed his wife."]] [[spoiler:He didn't. He called her on the phone, which she ran after and tripped over the vacuum lead, breaking her neck.]]
* ChekhovsSkill: [[spoiler:Cecily's fondness for anagrams. It meant that she was able to figure out that Madeline Cain = Adrian [=McNeil=].
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* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler:Aiden kills himself at the end by jumping in front of a train.]]
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* DrivenToSuicide: DeadAllAlong: [[spoiler:Cecily was murdered by Aiden on the day she disappeared, so Susan's investigation is technically fruitless.]]
* DrivenToSuicide:
** In ''Atticus Pünd Takes The Case'', Nancy attempts suicide [[spoiler:because she's pregnant.]] Thanks to Pünd's intervention, it becomes a HappilyFailedSuicide.
** [[spoiler:Aiden kills himself at the end by jumping in front of a train.]]
* DrivenToSuicide:
** In ''Atticus Pünd Takes The Case'', Nancy attempts suicide [[spoiler:because she's pregnant.]] Thanks to Pünd's intervention, it becomes a HappilyFailedSuicide.
** [[spoiler:Aiden kills himself at the end by jumping in front of a train.]]
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* ExactWords:
** "It was staring me in the face from the very first page." [[spoiler:Cecily means both the dedication to Leo and Madeline's full name in the character page.]]
** "We've met before." [[spoiler:Susan takes this to mean at the front desk. In reality, Alan recognized Adrian from his sordid past as Leo.]]
** "It was staring me in the face from the very first page." [[spoiler:Cecily means both the dedication to Leo and Madeline's full name in the character page.]]
** "We've met before." [[spoiler:Susan takes this to mean at the front desk. In reality, Alan recognized Adrian from his sordid past as Leo.]]
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* LateArrivalSpoiler: In-universe for ''Moonflower Murders'' and the Pünd book ''Atticus Pünd Takes The Case''. Madeline Cain doesn't appear in ''Pünd's Last Case'', because she's been replaced by James Fraser in the book after. [[spoiler:This spoils fairly early that she's going to go in some way; she actually kills Melissa's husband after she believes that he killed Melissa.]]
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* NotTheFirstVictim: In "Pünd's Last Case", Pünd figures out that this trope is subverted in one way, and played straight in another. [[spoiler: Robert killed Magnus Pye, but not his mother, Mary, who is the apparent first victim. It turns out he killed Pye due to having drowned his younger brother as children, and Mary, who knew, had left a confession with Pye in the event of her sudden death, because she suspected that Robert would kill her too.]]
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* EvilCounterpart: [[spoiler:Aiden]] is one for [[spoiler:James Frazer. Both are young men who were paid for sex by wealthy older men; while James genuinely grew to care for Alan, Aiden always hated being forced to have very violent sex with Frank, and then murdered him for trying to blackmail him for sex on his wedding night.]]
* EvilCripple: In Conway's novel, Eric isn't a murderer, but he is a PeepingTom who is presented as stunted specifically because of his club foot. Susan notes how [[UnfortunateImplications unfortunate]] this is in-universe.
* EvilCripple: In Conway's novel, Eric isn't a murderer, but he is a PeepingTom who is presented as stunted specifically because of his club foot. Susan notes how [[UnfortunateImplications unfortunate]] this is in-universe.
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* EvilCounterpart: [[spoiler:Aiden]] is one for [[spoiler:James Frazer. Both are young GoldDigger men who were paid for sex by wealthy older men; while James genuinely grew to care for Alan, Aiden always hated being forced to have very violent sex with Frank, and then murdered him for trying to blackmail him for sex on his wedding night.night to Cecily.]]
*EvilCripple: EvilCripple and MentalHandicapMoralDeficiency: In Conway's novel, Eric isn't a murderer, but he is a PeepingTom who is presented as stunted specifically because of his club foot.foot and as though this is somehow linked to his. Susan notes how [[UnfortunateImplications unfortunate]] this is in-universe.
* FakeFaint: Madeline pretends to faint over the violence so that [[spoiler:she can hide her letters to Melissa.]]
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* FakeFaint: Madeline pretends to faint over the violence so that [[spoiler:she can hide her letters to Melissa.]]
* MeaningfulName: Roxana. [[spoiler:The meaningful part is that it's a Romanian name, like Stefan.]]
* NameOfCain: Madeline Cain, Atticus's GirlFriday in the novel within a novel. [[spoiler:She murdered Melissa's husband for thinking he killed Melissa, of whom she was a LoonyFan, and shows zero remorse because he was keeping her from the screen, even after finding out that she was wrong.]]
* NameOfCain: Madeline Cain, Atticus's GirlFriday in the novel within a novel. [[spoiler:She murdered Melissa's husband for thinking he killed Melissa, of whom she was a LoonyFan, and shows zero remorse because he was keeping her from the screen, even after finding out that she was wrong.]]
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* StoryboardTattoo: Aiden's tattoo is [[spoiler:a Leo symbol, telling Susan that he ''is'' Leo.]]
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* UnintentionallyUnsympathetic: Invoked in-universe. Susan, as Alan's editor, said she found the character of Eric Chandler very unsavory, given that he was a PeepingTom who watched Melissa dress, and felt he should receive more of a comeuppance in "Atticus Pünd Takes The Case".
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* UnintentionallyUnsympathetic: Invoked in-universe. Susan, as Alan's editor, said she found the character of Eric Chandler very unsavory, given that he was a PeepingTom who watched Melissa dress, and felt he should receive more of a comeuppance in "Atticus Pünd Takes The Case".
** Susan, as Alan's editor, said she found the character of Eric Chandler very unsavory, given that he was a PeepingTom who watched Melissa dress, and felt he should receive more of a comeuppance in "Atticus Pünd Takes The Case".
** She also says that she found Atticus unsympathetic for choosing to reveal Nancy's pregnancy during TheSummation and putting her through the trauma of being there, despite knowing that Nancy couldn't have killed Melissa and Nancy's suicide attempt.
** Susan, as Alan's editor, said she found the character of Eric Chandler very unsavory, given that he was a PeepingTom who watched Melissa dress, and felt he should receive more of a comeuppance in "Atticus Pünd Takes The Case".
** She also says that she found Atticus unsympathetic for choosing to reveal Nancy's pregnancy during TheSummation and putting her through the trauma of being there, despite knowing that Nancy couldn't have killed Melissa and Nancy's suicide attempt.
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* CozyMystery: Deconstructed. The Atticus Pünd books are usually pretty straight examples (though not without darker hints in the vein of a traditional Creator/AgathaChristie novel). Susan's mysteries are often much more sordid and far from cozy, reflecting their modern origins.
* MetaphoricallyTrue: Conway is a big fan of these.
** Atticus says that [[spoiler:Matthew killed Mary Blakiston. This is not true; he didn't push her down the stairs, but she died as a result of his actions - she ran to answer the phone, tripped over the vacuum cord, and broke her neck.]]
** In the sequel, "for Frank and Leo, in remembrance." [[spoiler:It sounds to Susan like Alan means Leo and Frank both died. In fact, it refers to Conway's memory of what happened.]]
** Atticus says that [[spoiler:Matthew killed Mary Blakiston. This is not true; he didn't push her down the stairs, but she died as a result of his actions - she ran to answer the phone, tripped over the vacuum cord, and broke her neck.]]
** In the sequel, "for Frank and Leo, in remembrance." [[spoiler:It sounds to Susan like Alan means Leo and Frank both died. In fact, it refers to Conway's memory of what happened.]]
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* PoliceAreUseless: In both plot lines, with the detective in the real world having been the inspiration for Conway's character, causing him such intense hatred towards Conway that he has no inclination to give the investigation any real effort. The one exception is Hughes in ''Atticus Pund Takes The Case'', who is presented as a respectful and fully credible TheWatson.
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* PoliceAreUseless: In both plot lines, with the detective in the real world having been the inspiration for Conway's character, causing him such intense hatred towards Conway that he has no inclination to give the investigation any real effort. The one exception is Hughes in ''Atticus Pund Pünd Takes The Case'', who is presented as a respectful and fully credible TheWatson.
** Susan also gives one in ''Moonflower Murders'', but unintentionally; she said she didn't expect Laurence to bring his whole family along.
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* ContrastingSequelAntagonist: [[spoiler:Robert killed Pye to protect his future with Joy to hide his past crimes. Adrian killed Frank to hide his past as a sex worker, but he never loved Cecily and was only with her for her money, brutally killing her with no remorse.]]
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* ContrastingSequelAntagonist: [[spoiler:Robert killed Pye to protect his future with Joy to hide his past crimes. Adrian Aiden killed Frank to hide his past as a sex worker, but he never loved Cecily and was only with her for her money, brutally killing her with no remorse.]]
* EvilCounterpart: [[spoiler:Aiden]] is one for [[spoiler:James Frazer. Both are young men who were paid for sex by wealthy older men; while James genuinely grew to care for Alan, Aiden always hated being forced to have very violent sex with Frank, and then murdered him for trying to blackmail him for sex on his wedding night.]]
* EvilCripple: In Conway's novel, Eric isn't a murderer, but he is a PeepingTom who is presented as stunted specifically because of his club foot. Susan notes how [[UnfortunateImplications unfortunate]] this is in-universe.
* EvilCripple: In Conway's novel, Eric isn't a murderer, but he is a PeepingTom who is presented as stunted specifically because of his club foot. Susan notes how [[UnfortunateImplications unfortunate]] this is in-universe.
* GoodAdulteryBadAdultery: Bad adultery is Susan's considered affair with Craig (though she doesn't actually do it), and Melissa's in-story affair with [[spoiler:Leonard, who murdered her to conceal it]]; good adultery is [[spoiler:Cecily cheating on the sociopathic Aiden, who eventually murdered ''her'', with Stefan.]] .
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* NotActuallyHisChild: [[spoiler:Roxana is Stefan's daughter, not Aiden's.]]
* StoryboardTattoo: Aiden's tattoo is [[spoiler:a Leo symbol, telling Susan that he ''is'' Leo.]]
* TwoAliasesOneCharacter: [[spoiler:Leo and Aiden are the same person.]]
* UnintentionallyUnsympathetic: Invoked in-universe. Susan, as Alan's editor, said she found the character of Eric Chandler very unsavory, given that he was a PeepingTom who watched Melissa dress, and felt he should receive more of a comeuppance in "Atticus Pünd Takes The Case".
* StoryboardTattoo: Aiden's tattoo is [[spoiler:a Leo symbol, telling Susan that he ''is'' Leo.]]
* TwoAliasesOneCharacter: [[spoiler:Leo and Aiden are the same person.]]
* UnintentionallyUnsympathetic: Invoked in-universe. Susan, as Alan's editor, said she found the character of Eric Chandler very unsavory, given that he was a PeepingTom who watched Melissa dress, and felt he should receive more of a comeuppance in "Atticus Pünd Takes The Case".
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* CheatedDeathDiedAnyway: In ''Atticus Pünd Takes The Case'', [[spoiler:Madeline is strangled by her husband. She is still alive, just unconscious, when she [[spoiler:calls her boyfriend to come over, and then ''he''' kills her, also via strangulation.]]
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* CheatedDeathDiedAnyway: In ''Atticus Pünd Takes The Case'', [[spoiler:Madeline [[spoiler:Melissa is strangled by her husband. husband.]] She is still alive, just unconscious, when she [[spoiler:calls her boyfriend to come over, and then ''he''' kills her, also via strangulation.]]
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* LoonyFan: Melissa has a few. [[spoiler:Including Madeline Cain.]]
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* HiddenInPlainSight: In the sequel, ''Moonflower Murders'', someone intimately involved with the case the book-within-a-book ''Atticus Pünd Takes the Case'' is based on is able to tell who the killer was from the very first page: [[spoiler:the book is dedicated to the victim and their killer]].
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* FauxYay: [[spoiler:Aiden]] is a victim of this; unlike James, he isn't gay, he's straight, but [[IWasYoungAndNeededTheMoney desperation]] drove him to prostitute himself to older men.
* HiddenInPlainSight: In the sequel, ''Moonflower Murders'', someone intimately involved with the case the book-within-a-book ''Atticus Pünd Takes the Case'' is based on is able to tell who the killer was from the very first page: [[spoiler:the book is dedicated to the victim and their killer]].
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* WarningMistakenForThreat: Joyce thought that her future mother-in-law Mary Blakiston hated her and wanted her gone due to her general aloofness and encouraging her to leave Robert. [[spoiler:She was actually trying to tip Joyce off about Robert's violent and, in her mind, psychopathic nature. Downplayed in that Robert genuinely loved Joyce and posed no actual threat to her.]]
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* WarningMistakenForThreat: Joyce Joy thought that her future mother-in-law Mary Blakiston hated her and wanted her gone due to her general aloofness and encouraging her to leave Robert. [[spoiler:She was actually trying to tip Joyce off about Robert's violent and, in her mind, psychopathic nature. Downplayed in that Robert genuinely loved Joyce and posed no actual threat to her.]]
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* CheatedDeathDiedAnyway: In ''Atticus Pünd Takes The Case'', [[spoiler:Madeline is strangled by her husband. She is still alive, just unconscious, when she [[spoiler:calls her boyfriend to come over, and then ''he''' kills her, also via strangulation.]]
* ContrastingSequelAntagonist: [[spoiler:Robert killed Pye to protect his future with Joy to hide his past crimes. Adrian killed Frank to hide his past as a sex worker, but he never loved Cecily and was only with her for her money, brutally killing her with no remorse.]]
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* CheatedDeathDiedAnyway: In ''Atticus Pünd Takes The Case'', [[spoiler:Madeline is strangled by her husband. She is still alive, just unconscious, when she [[spoiler:calls her boyfriend to come over, and then ''he''' kills her, also via strangulation.]]
* ContrastingSequelAntagonist: [[spoiler:Robert killed Pye to protect his future with Joy to hide his past crimes. Adrian killed Frank to hide his past as a sex worker, but he never loved Cecily and was only with her for her money, brutally killing her with no remorse.]]
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