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* INeverSaidItWasPoison: Played with. No character notices, but the killer slips up and [[spoiler: talks about his champion bull in the past tense and then backtracks to say he uses the past tense because he's sold the bull and it's no longer his to speak of. In reality, it's because his champion bull is dead and he's fraudulently selling the bull's nearly-identical brother]]. Only the reader can get the real importance of the slip.
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* INeverSaidItWasPoison: Played with. No character notices, but the killer slips up and [[spoiler: talks about his champion bull in the past tense and then backtracks to say he uses the past tense because he's sold the bull and it's no longer his to speak of. In reality, it's because his champion bull is dead and he's fraudulently selling the bull's nearly-identical brother]]. Only the reader can get the real importance of the slip.
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* INeverSaidItWasPoison: Played with. No character notices, but the killer slips up and [[spoiler: talks about his champion bull in the past tense and then backtracks to say he uses the past tense because he's sold the bull and it's no longer his to speak of. In reality, it's because his champion bull is dead and he's fraudulently selling the bull's nearly-identical brother]]. Only the reader can get the real importance of the slip.
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* AwfulWeddedLife: Lily directs Archie to some fricassee prepared by a woman whose husband left her four times for her bad disposition but always came back because of her cooking.
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* AwfulWeddedLife: Lily directs Archie to some fricassee prepared by a woman whose husband left her four times for her bad disposition but always came back [[ThroughHisStomach because of her cooking.]]
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* AmbiguouslyBi: On learning that she's a professional golfer, Archie Goodwin dismisses Caroline Pratt as one of "those". This is likely a veiled reference to the old stereotype of female golfers being lesbians which, given the time, would seem to make this fall under AmbiguouslyGay -- but later in the novel, it's revealed that Caroline had been engaged to Clyde Osgood before he broke it off to pursue Lily Rowan, which has left her rather bitter. The novel doesn't really go into the matter any further leaving it to the reader's imagination what if any spectrum of sexual identity Caroline may fall on.
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* AmbiguouslyBi: On learning that she's a professional golfer, Archie Goodwin dismisses Caroline Pratt as one of "those". This is likely a veiled reference to the old stereotype of female golfers being lesbians {{lesbian|Jock}}s which, given the time, would seem to make this fall under AmbiguouslyGay -- but later in the novel, it's revealed that Caroline had been engaged to Clyde Osgood before he broke it off to pursue Lily Rowan, which has left her rather bitter. The novel doesn't really go into the matter any further leaving it to the reader's imagination what if any spectrum of sexual identity Caroline may fall on.
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: In the confrontation between Pratt and the farmer's association at the beginning, an argument gets heated and after one self-righteous dig too many, Monte [=McMillan=] explodes and angrily points out that he'd previously offered to sell Caesar to several local farmers, only to receive offers that were insultingly and cynically low as they tried to capitalise on his misfortune. [[spoiler: Or were they? Because as it turns out, the bull being barbequed and Caesar are not necessarily the same...]]
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* MistakenIdentity: [[spoiler: The bull in the paddock is not Caesar, but a similar-but-inferior relation. Caesar was in fact the bull that died from the anthrax outbreak, but [=McMillan=] sold the survivor to Pratt under false pretenses. Meaning that even if he can't be convicted of murder, he can be convicted of fraud...]]
