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* ManlyTears: Garrett at the end [[TearJerker It's completely justified due to the fact the General did such a monstrous thing to Eleanor and his daughter is equally bad.]]
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* ManlyTears: Garrett at the end [[TearJerker end. It's completely justified due to the fact the General did such a monstrous thing to Eleanor and his daughter is equally bad.]]
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The general has a longstanding hatred of doctors due to a medical error leading to the death of his wife. Garrett is forced to come to the general's house and live among the strange OldMoney crew of servants as well as deal with the general's beautiful daughter plus a lovely MysteriousWoman that refuses to be identified.
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The general has a longstanding hatred of doctors due to a medical error leading to the death of his wife. Garrett is forced to come to the general's house and live among the strange OldMoney crew of servants as well as deal with the general's beautiful daughter plus a lovely MysteriousWoman woman that refuses to be identified.
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* OurZombiesAreDifferent: The draugs are vengeance crazed monsters seeking to destroy [[spoiler: Jennifer]] but anyyone will do..
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* OurZombiesAreDifferent: The draugs are vengeance crazed monsters seeking to destroy [[spoiler: Jennifer]] Jennifer]], but anyyone anyone will do..
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* DinosaursAreDragons: Literally so in works of art, such as the statue from ''Old Tin Sorrows''.
* DwindlingParty: Garrett's Marine unit in the islands got whittled down from two hundred to a handful, thanks to enemy action and the swamp's teeming tropical hazards.
* DwindlingParty: Garrett's Marine unit in the islands got whittled down from two hundred to a handful, thanks to enemy action and the swamp's teeming tropical hazards.
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* ArrangedMarriage: [[spoiler: The General and his wife, Eleanor, were betrothed as part of a protection for the latter from the Royal Family after a failed coup.]]
* BitchInSheepsClothing: [[spoiler: Both the General and his daughter, Jennifer, turn out to be cold blooded murderers.]]
* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: Garrett solves the murder of all the General's staff as well as the source of his illness but it gives him no comfort. The General murdered his wife, Eleanor, in a fit of jealousy and caused her ghost to haunt him. The murders were committed by his daughter, Jennifer, to make sure the estate wasn't split up.]]
* CrazyJealousGuy: The General, despite being a serial adulterer while married, expected absolute fidelity from his wife. [[spoiler: To the point that he kills his wife after months of tormenting her due to the belief she cheated on him. It's only after his daughter's birth that he realizes he was wrong.]]
* DinosaursAreDragons: Literally so in works of art, such as thestatue from ''Old Tin Sorrows''.
statue.
*DwindlingParty: DwindlingParty:
** Garrett's Marine unit in the islands got whittled down from two hundred to a handful, thanks to enemy action and the swamp's teeming tropicalhazards.hazards.
** The General's staff starts at eleven and starts going down due to multiple murders that happen throughout the book.
* BitchInSheepsClothing: [[spoiler: Both the General and his daughter, Jennifer, turn out to be cold blooded murderers.]]
* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: Garrett solves the murder of all the General's staff as well as the source of his illness but it gives him no comfort. The General murdered his wife, Eleanor, in a fit of jealousy and caused her ghost to haunt him. The murders were committed by his daughter, Jennifer, to make sure the estate wasn't split up.]]
* CrazyJealousGuy: The General, despite being a serial adulterer while married, expected absolute fidelity from his wife. [[spoiler: To the point that he kills his wife after months of tormenting her due to the belief she cheated on him. It's only after his daughter's birth that he realizes he was wrong.]]
* DinosaursAreDragons: Literally so in works of art, such as the
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** Garrett's Marine unit in the islands got whittled down from two hundred to a handful, thanks to enemy action and the swamp's teeming tropical
** The General's staff starts at eleven and starts going down due to multiple murders that happen throughout the book.
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* GhostlyGoals: [[spoiler: Eleanor's ghost]] sought revenge against [[spoiler: General Stantnor]] and vindication from Garrett.
* HelpingHands: Severed parts of the draugs keep crawling around after being severed, hands included. In ''Petty Pewter Gods'', Trog's hand is severed and keeps moving around.
* InheritanceMurder: What Garrett comes to suspect is happening, in addition to the theft and slow poisoning he'd actually been hired to look into. [[spoiler: Played with in that the culprit isn't trying to get the fortune personally, but to throw control of half the estate to the only other heir who wouldn't break up the property for a quick profit.]]
* KillItWithFire: How the draugs' cut-up remains are destroyed.
* HelpingHands: Severed parts of the draugs keep crawling around after being severed, hands included. In ''Petty Pewter Gods'', Trog's hand is severed and keeps moving around.
* InheritanceMurder: What Garrett comes to suspect is happening, in addition to the theft and slow poisoning he'd actually been hired to look into. [[spoiler: Played with in that the culprit isn't trying to get the fortune personally, but to throw control of half the estate to the only other heir who wouldn't break up the property for a quick profit.]]
* KillItWithFire: How the draugs' cut-up remains are destroyed.
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* GhostlyGoals: [[spoiler: Eleanor's ghost]] sought revenge against [[spoiler: General Stantnor]] and vindication from Garrett.
Garrett. She also falls in love with Garrett [[spoiler: and turns against him when he sleeps with her daughter, unaware of their connection.]]
* GoMadFromTheRevelation: [[spoiler: The confrontation with his wife's portrait and his culpability finally sends the General over the edge into madness and death. To be fair, it is a magical effect.]]
* HelpingHands: Severed parts of the draugs keep crawling around after being severed, hands included. In ''Petty Pewter Gods'', Trog's hand is severed and keeps moving around.\n
* InheritanceMurder: What Garrett comes to suspect is happening, in addition to the theft and slow poisoning he'd actually been hired to look into. [[spoiler:Played with in that It turns out to be Jennifer, quite possibly the culprit isn't trying to get the fortune personally, but to throw control of half most obvious suspect, who didn't want the estate to the only other heir who wouldn't break up the property for a quick profit.diminished.]]
*KillItWithFire: KillItWithFire:
** How the draugs' cut-up remains aredestroyed.destroyed.
** The murderer attempts to kill Garrett by setting the barn he's in on fire.
* GoMadFromTheRevelation: [[spoiler: The confrontation with his wife's portrait and his culpability finally sends the General over the edge into madness and death. To be fair, it is a magical effect.]]
* HelpingHands: Severed parts of the draugs keep crawling around after being severed, hands included.
* InheritanceMurder: What Garrett comes to suspect is happening, in addition to the theft and slow poisoning he'd actually been hired to look into. [[spoiler:
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** How the draugs' cut-up remains are
** The murderer attempts to kill Garrett by setting the barn he's in on fire.
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* {{Mammy}}: Cook from ''Old Tin Sorrows'', aside from being a half-troll rather than black.
* ManlyTears: Garrett in ''Old Tin Sorrows.'' [[TearJerker It's completely justified.]]
* MedicineShow: Doc Doom, the exorcist, self-promotes by traveling with one of these. Despite the gaudy showmanship, he actually does prove competent.
* ManlyTears: Garrett in ''Old Tin Sorrows.'' [[TearJerker It's completely justified.]]
* MedicineShow: Doc Doom, the exorcist, self-promotes by traveling with one of these. Despite the gaudy showmanship, he actually does prove competent.
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* {{Mammy}}: Cook from ''Old Tin Sorrows'', Cook, aside from being a half-troll rather than black.
* ManlyTears: Garrettin ''Old Tin Sorrows.'' at the end [[TearJerker It's completely justified.justified due to the fact the General did such a monstrous thing to Eleanor and his daughter is equally bad.]]
* MedicineShow: Doc Doom, the exorcist, self-promotes by traveling with one of these. Despite the gaudy showmanship, he actually does prove competent. [[spoiler: He manages to conjure Eleanor's ghost, solve the mystery, and banish her in the space of one day.]]
* ManlyTears: Garrett
* MedicineShow: Doc Doom, the exorcist, self-promotes by traveling with one of these. Despite the gaudy showmanship, he actually does prove competent. [[spoiler: He manages to conjure Eleanor's ghost, solve the mystery, and banish her in the space of one day.]]
* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: Essentially, the only thing that can create a ghost or draugr is someone who feels this amount of hatred toward their murderer.
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** The scene where Garrett is hired in ''Old Tin Sorrows'' is lifted intact from ''Literature/TheBigSleep''.
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** The scene where Garrett is hired in ''Old Tin Sorrows'' is lifted intact from ''Literature/TheBigSleep''. Another nod happens when [[spoiler: the daughter turns out to be the murderer.]]
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* SleepingDummy: In ''Old Tin Sorrows'', Garrett leaves a blanket-covered suit of armor in his bed while he sneaks around the Stantnor mansion at night. [[spoiler: And a good thing too: when he gets back, there's an ax buried in the armor.]]
* OurZombiesAreDifferent: The draugs are crypt haunting, murderous, and protectors of graves.
* OurZombiesAreDifferent: The draugs are crypt haunting, murderous, and protectors of graves.
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* SleepingDummy: In ''Old Tin Sorrows'', Garrett leaves a blanket-covered suit of armor in his bed while he sneaks around the Stantnor mansion at night. [[spoiler: And a good thing too: when he gets back, there's an ax buried in the armor.]]
* StrongFamilyResemblance: The mysterious woman and Jennifer are able to pass for one another. [[spoiler: Because the mysterious woman is the ghost of her mother.]]
* OurZombiesAreDifferent: The draugs arecrypt haunting, murderous, and protectors of graves.
vengeance crazed monsters seeking to destroy [[spoiler: Jennifer]] but anyyone will do..
* StrongFamilyResemblance: The mysterious woman and Jennifer are able to pass for one another. [[spoiler: Because the mysterious woman is the ghost of her mother.]]
* OurZombiesAreDifferent: The draugs are
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[[caption-width-right:241: A locked room mystery with magic.]]
''Old Tin Sorrows'' is the fourth 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 is contacted by an old war friend, Blake Peters AKA Black Pete, who asks him to investigate the slow delibetating illness of his former commander, General Stantor. Blake Peters believes the general is being poisoned and Stantor won't see a doctor.
The general has a longstanding hatred of doctors due to a medical error leading to the death of his wife. Garrett is forced to come to the general's house and live among the strange OldMoney crew of servants as well as deal with the general's beautiful daughter plus a lovely MysteriousWoman that refuses to be identified.
Garrett must determine if illness, murder, or something even more sinister is afoot.
It is followed by ''Literature/DreadBrassShadows''.
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''Old Tin Sorrows'' contains the following tropes:
* DinosaursAreDragons: Literally so in works of art, such as the statue from ''Old Tin Sorrows''.
* DwindlingParty: Garrett's Marine unit in the islands got whittled down from two hundred to a handful, thanks to enemy action and the swamp's teeming tropical hazards.
* EverybodyCallsHimBarkeep: Cook. Justified in that she's been the Stantnor estate's cook for three human generations.
* EvilCripple: [[spoiler: General Stantnor also, though he hid it well for most of the book]]
* GhostlyGoals: [[spoiler: Eleanor's ghost]] sought revenge against [[spoiler: General Stantnor]] and vindication from Garrett.
* HelpingHands: Severed parts of the draugs keep crawling around after being severed, hands included. In ''Petty Pewter Gods'', Trog's hand is severed and keeps moving around.
* InheritanceMurder: What Garrett comes to suspect is happening, in addition to the theft and slow poisoning he'd actually been hired to look into. [[spoiler: Played with in that the culprit isn't trying to get the fortune personally, but to throw control of half the estate to the only other heir who wouldn't break up the property for a quick profit.]]
* KillItWithFire: How the draugs' cut-up remains are destroyed.
* MadArtist: Snake (from ''Old Tin Sorrows''). A little bit of innate, unfocused magic, mixed with his insanity means that every painting of his has a bit of magic in it, for better or worse.
* {{Mammy}}: Cook from ''Old Tin Sorrows'', aside from being a half-troll rather than black.
* ManlyTears: Garrett in ''Old Tin Sorrows.'' [[TearJerker It's completely justified.]]
* MedicineShow: Doc Doom, the exorcist, self-promotes by traveling with one of these. Despite the gaudy showmanship, he actually does prove competent.
* NoNameGiven: Cook refuses to give any other name than Cook, even though Garrett pesters her about it.
* TheNoseKnows: Morley claims to have located Garrett's room by following the "meat eater smell" - in a house shared by several other humans, no less - but it's not quite clear if he actually can do that or is just making up excuses to tease Garrett.
* OlderThanTheyLook: Some of the nonhumans, such as Cook, have been around for many generations of humans.
* ShoutOut:
** The scene where Garrett is hired in ''Old Tin Sorrows'' is lifted intact from ''Literature/TheBigSleep''.
** Garrett's lasting feelings for Eleanor and his attachment to her portrait may be an oblique nod to ''Literature/{{Laura}}'', [[spoiler: albeit with a ghost rather than a woman whose death was mis-reported]].
* SleepingDummy: In ''Old Tin Sorrows'', Garrett leaves a blanket-covered suit of armor in his bed while he sneaks around the Stantnor mansion at night. [[spoiler: And a good thing too: when he gets back, there's an ax buried in the armor.]]
* OurZombiesAreDifferent: The draugs are crypt haunting, murderous, and protectors of graves.
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[[caption-width-right:241: A locked room mystery with magic.]]
''Old Tin Sorrows'' is the fourth 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 is contacted by an old war friend, Blake Peters AKA Black Pete, who asks him to investigate the slow delibetating illness of his former commander, General Stantor. Blake Peters believes the general is being poisoned and Stantor won't see a doctor.
The general has a longstanding hatred of doctors due to a medical error leading to the death of his wife. Garrett is forced to come to the general's house and live among the strange OldMoney crew of servants as well as deal with the general's beautiful daughter plus a lovely MysteriousWoman that refuses to be identified.
Garrett must determine if illness, murder, or something even more sinister is afoot.
It is followed by ''Literature/DreadBrassShadows''.
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''Old Tin Sorrows'' contains the following tropes:
* DinosaursAreDragons: Literally so in works of art, such as the statue from ''Old Tin Sorrows''.
* DwindlingParty: Garrett's Marine unit in the islands got whittled down from two hundred to a handful, thanks to enemy action and the swamp's teeming tropical hazards.
* EverybodyCallsHimBarkeep: Cook. Justified in that she's been the Stantnor estate's cook for three human generations.
* EvilCripple: [[spoiler: General Stantnor also, though he hid it well for most of the book]]
* GhostlyGoals: [[spoiler: Eleanor's ghost]] sought revenge against [[spoiler: General Stantnor]] and vindication from Garrett.
* HelpingHands: Severed parts of the draugs keep crawling around after being severed, hands included. In ''Petty Pewter Gods'', Trog's hand is severed and keeps moving around.
* InheritanceMurder: What Garrett comes to suspect is happening, in addition to the theft and slow poisoning he'd actually been hired to look into. [[spoiler: Played with in that the culprit isn't trying to get the fortune personally, but to throw control of half the estate to the only other heir who wouldn't break up the property for a quick profit.]]
* KillItWithFire: How the draugs' cut-up remains are destroyed.
* MadArtist: Snake (from ''Old Tin Sorrows''). A little bit of innate, unfocused magic, mixed with his insanity means that every painting of his has a bit of magic in it, for better or worse.
* {{Mammy}}: Cook from ''Old Tin Sorrows'', aside from being a half-troll rather than black.
* ManlyTears: Garrett in ''Old Tin Sorrows.'' [[TearJerker It's completely justified.]]
* MedicineShow: Doc Doom, the exorcist, self-promotes by traveling with one of these. Despite the gaudy showmanship, he actually does prove competent.
* NoNameGiven: Cook refuses to give any other name than Cook, even though Garrett pesters her about it.
* TheNoseKnows: Morley claims to have located Garrett's room by following the "meat eater smell" - in a house shared by several other humans, no less - but it's not quite clear if he actually can do that or is just making up excuses to tease Garrett.
* OlderThanTheyLook: Some of the nonhumans, such as Cook, have been around for many generations of humans.
* ShoutOut:
** The scene where Garrett is hired in ''Old Tin Sorrows'' is lifted intact from ''Literature/TheBigSleep''.
** Garrett's lasting feelings for Eleanor and his attachment to her portrait may be an oblique nod to ''Literature/{{Laura}}'', [[spoiler: albeit with a ghost rather than a woman whose death was mis-reported]].
* SleepingDummy: In ''Old Tin Sorrows'', Garrett leaves a blanket-covered suit of armor in his bed while he sneaks around the Stantnor mansion at night. [[spoiler: And a good thing too: when he gets back, there's an ax buried in the armor.]]
* OurZombiesAreDifferent: The draugs are crypt haunting, murderous, and protectors of graves.
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