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* DiplomaticImmunity: [[spoiler: Devereux]] has a job at the American embassy in London and hides behind this for a while.
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* DiplomaticImmunity: DiplomaticImpunity: [[spoiler: Devereux]] has a job is an official at the American embassy in London and hides behind this for a while.
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* TheCameo: Just about every significant Scotland Yard Inspector Holmes has worked with in the books, including the actual InspectorLestrade, appear in a meeting with Jones and Chase to discuss what happened to Holmes, the Moriarty Empire and Devereaux.
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* TheCameo: Just about every significant Scotland Yard Inspector Holmes has worked with in the books, including the actual InspectorLestrade, appear in a meeting with Jones and Chase to discuss what happened to Holmes, the Moriarty Empire and Devereaux.Devereux.
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* DiplomaticImmunity: [[spoiler: Deveraux]] has a job at the American embassy in London and hides behind this for a while.
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* DiplomaticImmunity: [[spoiler: Deveraux]] Devereux]] has a job at the American embassy in London and hides behind this for a while.
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* TheEndingChangesEverything: [[spoiler: with a dose of SuddenDownerEnding. Chase turns out to be Moriarty and has been manipulating Jones for the whole book while eliminating Deveraux and his accomplices, murdering Jones, abducting Devereaux to torture for information and then heading to America to resurrect his empire]].
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* TheEndingChangesEverything: [[spoiler: with a dose of SuddenDownerEnding. Chase turns out to be Moriarty and has been manipulating Jones for the whole book while eliminating Deveraux Devereux and his accomplices, murdering Jones, abducting Devereaux Devereux to torture for information and then heading to America to resurrect his empire]].
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* MisterBig: When Clarence Devereaux finally makes an appearance, he turns out to be a surprisingly small man, who Chase compares to the puppet Jones bought for his daughter. [[spoiler: He's also small enough to be packed in a steamer trunk]].
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* MisterBig: When Clarence Devereaux Devereux finally makes an appearance, he turns out to be a surprisingly small man, who Chase compares to the puppet Jones bought for his daughter. [[spoiler: He's also small enough to be packed in a steamer trunk]].
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* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: American Ambassador [[HistoricalDomainCharacter Robert Todd Lincoln]] [[spoiler: insists upon proof of Jones and Chase's allegations against a member of his staff but instantly lets them take the man into custody after Jones finds it]]. Jones colleagues at Scotland Yard also listen to Chase's claims about the Deveraux organization and then move to act against them.
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* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: American Ambassador [[HistoricalDomainCharacter Robert Todd Lincoln]] [[spoiler: insists upon proof of Jones and Chase's allegations against a member of his staff but instantly lets them take the man into custody after Jones finds it]]. Jones colleagues at Scotland Yard also listen to Chase's claims about the Deveraux Devereux organization and then move to act against them.
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** Clay's assistant Archie disappears from the story after being injured by one of Deveraux's men after a failed trap when Jones and Chase go chasing after his attacker.
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** Clay's assistant Archie disappears from the story after being injured by one of Deveraux's Devereux's men after a failed trap when Jones and Chase go chasing after his attacker.
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* YouHaveFailedMe: [[spoiler: Moriarty let the police have evidence against all of the men who refused to stand with him against the threat of Devereaux]].
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* YouHaveFailedMe: [[spoiler: Moriarty let the police have evidence against all of the men who refused to stand with him against the threat of Devereaux]].Devereux]].
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* WrongGenreSavvy: Athelney Jones thinks that he's in a conventional SherlockHolmes novel with Frederick Chase as TheWatson. [[spoiler:Unfortunately, Chase is really TheChessmaster, and as he reminds the reader towards the end, the title of this manuscript is important.]]
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* WrongGenreSavvy: Athelney Jones thinks that he's in a conventional SherlockHolmes Literature/SherlockHolmes novel with Frederick Chase as TheWatson. [[spoiler:Unfortunately, Chase is really TheChessmaster, and as he reminds the reader towards the end, the title of this manuscript is important.]]
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* OtherMeAnnoysMe: Quite a few Scotland Yard inceptors feel this way about the versions of them that appear in the published Holmes' stories (although those versions don't seem that innacruate)
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* OtherMeAnnoysMe: Quite a few Scotland Yard inceptors inspectors feel this way about the versions of them that appear in the published Holmes' stories (although those versions don't seem that innacruate)inaccurate)
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* ExactlyWhatIAimedAt: A bomb is sent to Jones' office at Scotland Yard, but it fails to kill him. [[spoiler: The bomb was actually meant to destroy their telegraph room, to prevent them from contacting the Pinkertons in America and discovering that Chase isn't one of their men.]]
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* ExactlyWhatIAimedAt: A bomb is sent to Jones' office at Scotland Yard, but it fails to kill him. [[spoiler: The bomb was actually meant to destroy their telegraph room, to prevent them from contacting the Pinkertons in America and discovering that Chase isn't one of their men.]]
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* BadassOnPaper: Inspector Patterson, who arrested nearly the entirety of Moriarty's organization, but did so do to Holmes delivering him all of the evidence necessary for this in a neat package (and Patterson wasn't even his first choice, Lestrade was unavailable at the time). And then there's the matter that [[spoiler: he only arrested the people Moriarty wanted him to arrest, given that he'd let Holmes take that evidence against the members of his organization who'd deserted him]]. To his credit, [[HumbleHero he does admit that the credit belongs to Holmes and that he'd never even heard of Moriarty before Holmes came to him]].
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* BadassOnPaper: Inspector Patterson, who arrested nearly the entirety of Moriarty's organization, but did so do due to Holmes delivering him all of the evidence necessary for this in a neat package (and Patterson wasn't even his first choice, Lestrade was unavailable at the time). And then there's the matter that [[spoiler: he only arrested the people Moriarty wanted him to arrest, given that he'd let Holmes take that evidence against the members of his organization who'd deserted him]]. To his credit, [[HumbleHero he does admit that the credit belongs to Holmes and that he'd never even heard of Moriarty before Holmes came to him]].
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* ApologeticAttacker: [[spoiler: Moriarty apologizes to Jones before shooting him to death. He seems to express actual remorse through the narration, but it could very well be [[UnreliableNarrator self-serving]]]].
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* ExactlyWhatIAimedAt: A bomb is sent to Jones' office at Scotland Yard, but it fails to kill him. [[spoiler: The bomb was actually meant to destroy their telegraph room, to prevent them from contacting the Pinkertons in America and discovering that Chase isn't one of their men.]]
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* BoomStick: [[spoiler: Jones' cane can fire a shotgun shell]].
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--> [[spoiler: I turned to Jones, said "I'm sorry", then I shot him in the head.]]
--> [[spoiler: I turned to Jones, said "I'm sorry", then I shot him in the head.]]
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* DramaticIrony: Your average reader might easily suspect [[spoiler:the forces working against Devereux's organization and the police are the remains of Moriarty's organization, especially when bad guys start dying to silenced shots, like from Moran's famous air rifle.]]
* TheEndingChangesEverything: [[spoiler: with a dose of SuddenDownerEnding. Chase turns out to be Moriarty and has been manipulating Jones for the whole book while eliminating Deveraux and his accomplices, murdering Jones, abducting Devereaux to torture for information and then heading to America to resurrect his empire]].
* TheEndingChangesEverything: [[spoiler: with a dose of SuddenDownerEnding. Chase turns out to be Moriarty and has been manipulating Jones for the whole book while eliminating Deveraux and his accomplices, murdering Jones, abducting Devereaux to torture for information and then heading to America to resurrect his empire]].
* EvilAllAlong: [[spoiler:Chase is really Moriarty who has faked his death and is stringing Jones along for his own reasons.]]
* EvilCounterpart: [[spoiler:The entire book is Moriarty's investigation of Devereux's organization while pretending to be dead, which is his version of what Holmes investigating Moriarty's organization while pretending to be dead. He even notes the odd coincidence; they both faked their deaths using the same event, [[RuleOfSymbolism though Holmes ascended while Moriarty descended]].]]
* EvilCounterpart: [[spoiler:The entire book is Moriarty's investigation of Devereux's organization while pretending to be dead, which is his version of what Holmes investigating Moriarty's organization while pretending to be dead. He even notes the odd coincidence; they both faked their deaths using the same event, [[RuleOfSymbolism though Holmes ascended while Moriarty descended]].]]
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* DramaticIrony: Your average reader might easily suspect [[spoiler:the forces working against Devereux's organization and the police are the remains of Moriarty's organization, especially when bad guys start dying to silenced shots, like from Moran's famous air rifle.]]
* TheEndingChangesEverything: [[spoiler: with a dose of SuddenDownerEnding. Chase turns out to be Moriarty and has been manipulating Jones for the whole book while eliminating Deveraux and his accomplices, murdering Jones, abducting Devereaux to torture for information and then heading to America to resurrect his empire]].
* EvilAllAlong: [[spoiler:Chase is really Moriarty who has faked his death and is stringing Jones along for his own reasons.]]
* EvilCounterpart: [[spoiler:The entire book is Moriarty's investigation of Devereux's organization while pretending to be dead, which is his version of what Holmes investigating Moriarty's organization while pretending to be dead. He even notes the odd coincidence; they both faked their deaths using the same event, [[RuleOfSymbolism though Holmes ascended while Moriarty descended]].]]
* TheEndingChangesEverything: [[spoiler: with a dose of SuddenDownerEnding. Chase turns out to be Moriarty and has been manipulating Jones for the whole book while eliminating Deveraux and his accomplices, murdering Jones, abducting Devereaux to torture for information and then heading to America to resurrect his empire]].
* EvilAllAlong: [[spoiler:Chase is really Moriarty who has faked his death and is stringing Jones along for his own reasons.]]
* EvilCounterpart: [[spoiler:The entire book is Moriarty's investigation of Devereux's organization while pretending to be dead, which is his version of what Holmes investigating Moriarty's organization while pretending to be dead. He even notes the odd coincidence; they both faked their deaths using the same event, [[RuleOfSymbolism though Holmes ascended while Moriarty descended]].]]
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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Archie, who disappears from the story after being injured by one of Deveraux's men after a failed trap.
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** Clay's assistant Archie disappears from the story after being injured by one of Deveraux's men after a failedtrap.trap when Jones and Chase go chasing after his attacker.
** Underwood, Moriarty's fiercely loyal bodyguard from ''Literature/TheHouseOfSilk'' is neither seen nor mentioned, although [[HandWave this might just mean that]] ''Moriarty'' isn't meant to be a sequel to ''The House of Silk.''
** Clay's assistant Archie disappears from the story after being injured by one of Deveraux's men after a failed
** Underwood, Moriarty's fiercely loyal bodyguard from ''Literature/TheHouseOfSilk'' is neither seen nor mentioned, although [[HandWave this might just mean that]] ''Moriarty'' isn't meant to be a sequel to ''The House of Silk.''