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* UnionsSuck: The coal miners' union as a front for a secret society called the Scowrers, who were in cahoots with organized crime.
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* FakeAlibi: No accusation made against the scourers will stand, since they simply have more of their members swear the accused were with them all night.
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* ThirdPartyPeacekeeper: You two fight, and can't apologize, but neither of you has the guts to contact the other. So you make a call on me, a mutual acquaintance, looking to find an excuse to talk.
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* ThirdPartyPeacekeeper: You When [=McMurdo=] and Baldwin are close to starting a fight (over both of them dating Elsie), Boss [=McGinty=] has to step in to prevent his two fight, and can't apologize, but neither of you has the guts to contact the best HiredGuns from killing each other. So you make a call on me, a mutual acquaintance, looking to find an excuse to talk.
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* HistoricalVillainUpgrade: The novel's fictionalisation of the real-world conflict between the Pinkertons and the Molly Maguires has a rather right-wing bias.
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* VillainTeamuUp: A variation. Having traced Edwards to Britain, the Scowerers wisely seek out the assistance of their British counterparts-in-crime. They collaborate with Moriarty's syndicate, which uses its resources and network to locate their quarry.
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* VillainTeamuUp: VillainTeamUp: A variation. Having traced Edwards to Britain, the Scowerers wisely seek out the assistance of their British counterparts-in-crime. They collaborate with Moriarty's syndicate, which uses its resources and network to locate their quarry.
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* VillainTeamuUp: A variation. Having traced Edwards to Britain, the Scowerers wisely seek out the assistance of their British counterparts-in-crime. They collaborate with Moriarty's syndicate, which uses its resources and network to locate their quarry.
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* MakeItLookLikeAnAccident: How Moriarty's operatives ultimately take care of Edwards when he and his wife flee to South Africa. Edwards 'falls overboard' in a gale off Saint Helena. Holmes even cites this trope when Barker informs him.
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* SignatureStyle: This is how Holmes deduces in the epilogue that it was Moriarty, not the Scowerers, who killed Edwards off Saint Helena. MakeItLookLikeAnAccident is a favored style of Moriarty's.
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* ThirdPartyPeacekeeper: You two fight, and can't apologize, but neither of you has the guts to contact the other. So you make a call on me, a mutual acquaintance, looking to find an excuse to talk.
