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It was followed by a short-running [[https://www.tvobscurities.com/spotlight/the-whistler/ TV series]] with an identical premise.
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It was followed by a series of seven films between 1944 and 1948 and a short-running [[https://www.tvobscurities.com/spotlight/the-whistler/ TV series]] with an identical premise.
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* SuicideIsShameful: One episode involves a suicide for life insurance. It is explicitly stated that the policy would pay out even in the event of suicide, but the person in question still goes to the trouble of staging a SuicideNotMurder scheme (even hiring an accomplice despite being in serious money trouble), ''solely'' to spare his family the pain of knowing he had killed himself. [[spoiler:It ends as a HappilyFailedSuicide.]]
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* SuicideIsShameful: One episode involves a suicide for life insurance. It is explicitly stated that the policy would pay out even in the event of suicide, but the person in question still goes to the trouble of staging a SuicideNotMurder scheme (even hiring an accomplice despite being in serious money trouble), ''solely'' to spare his family the pain of knowing he had killed himself. [[spoiler:It ends as a HappilyFailedSuicide.]]
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* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Criminals often found their acts came undone due to their own mistakes.
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* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Criminals often found find their acts came come undone due to their own mistakes.mistakes.
* HorrorHost: The Whistler originated as an {{expy}} of Radio/TheShadow -- the sinister-voiced narrator of an {{Anthology}} series. The Shadow was {{retool}}ed into being a participant character in his own series; the Whistler remained a detached narrator for his entire run.
* HorrorHost: The Whistler originated as an {{expy}} of Radio/TheShadow -- the sinister-voiced narrator of an {{Anthology}} series. The Shadow was {{retool}}ed into being a participant character in his own series; the Whistler remained a detached narrator for his entire run.
* ScoobyDooHoax: One of the series' stock plots is for someone to complain of ghosts in their bedroom and/or {{Prophetic Dream}}s. This can go one of two ways, both of which fit this trope. Another character might be {{Gaslighting}} the dreamer as a means to an end, as in "[[spoiler:Shrunken Head]]" (the goal is [[spoiler:to have the heroine declared legally insane so she can't marry and claim her inheritance]]). In other cases, the supposed dreamer is actually lying, as in "[[spoiler:Death Comes at Midnight]]" (the goal was [[spoiler:to [[SuicideNotMurder disguise a planned suicide as a foretold murder]]]]).
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* SecondPersonNarration: The Whistler's narration is frequently addressed to the main character (though they can't actually hear him).
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* SecondPersonNarration: The Whistler's narration is frequently addressed to the main character (though character, though they can't actually hear him).him. At times this makes him come across as an ignored [[TheConscience voice of conscience]].
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* CrossDressingVoices: A marginal case: The male title character's whistle is provided by a female performer, Dorothy Roberts.
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* CrossDressingVoices: A marginal case: The male title character's whistle is provided by a female performer, Dorothy Roberts.
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* MightAsWellNotBeInPrisonAtAll: The first episode features a prisoner who escapes with the intention of recovering his hidden loot. One of his fellow prisoners orchestrates a grab for that same loot, by getting two of his agents on the outside to [[spoiler:pull off a ScoobyDooHoax]].
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* CoolClearWater: Averted in the episode "Death Has a Thirst." The characters get stranded on a desert island, and when some of them go exploring for water sources, they carry a test kit to detect unsafe levels of arsenic and zinc. Every source they test turns out to be contaminated. One character, who has already exhibited paranoid behavior, is reluctant to believe that the water is poisonous (since after all, it ''looks'' fine); he thinks the others are trying to make him die of thirst.
* SecondPersonNarration: The Whistler's narration is frequently addressed to the main character (though they can't actually hear him).
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* VillainProtagonist: Many episodes feature the main character trying to get away with committing a crime.
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* SuicideIsShameful: One episode involves a suicide for life insurance. It is explicitly stated that the policy would pay out even in the event of suicide, but the person in question still goes to the trouble of staging a SuicideNotMurder scheme (even hiring an accomplice despite being in serious money trouble), ''solely'' to spare his family the pain of knowing he had killed himself. [[spoiler:It ends as a HappilyFailedSuicide.]]
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It was followed by a short-running [[https://www.tvobscurities.com/spotlight/the-whistler/ TV series]] with an identical premise.
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!I am the Whistler, and I know many tropes, for I walk by night.
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* SpottingTheThread: In one episode, the detective decides to further scrutinize the circumstances of a woman's alleged suicide when her alarm clock goes off, something which wouldn't happen if she had been intending to kill herself.
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* SpottingTheThread: In one episode, the detective decides to further scrutinize the circumstances of a woman's alleged suicide when her alarm clock goes off, something which wouldn't happen if she had been intending to kill herself.herself.
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* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: The Whistler is only known by his monicker which comes from his ominous whistling.
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* NeverSuicide: In one episode, a man makes his wife's death look like a suicide, only to be caught on account of her alarm clock being set despite her allegedly killing herself.
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: The Whistler is only known by his monicker which comes from his ominouswhistling.whistling.
* SpottingTheThread: In one episode, the detective decides to further scrutinize the circumstances of a woman's alleged suicide when her alarm clock goes off, something which wouldn't happen if she had been intending to kill herself.
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: The Whistler is only known by his monicker which comes from his ominous
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''The Whistler'' was a mystery anthology series.
A recurring theme of the series was that of criminals being undone by missing details, or by their own mistakes.
!I am the Whistler, and I know many tropes, for I walk by night.
*ConvictionByContradiction: One episode featured a man who killed his wife and made it look like a suicide. The police investigation and interrogation, conducted in the wife's apartment, has some close calls, but it looks like he's gotten away with it. The detective rises and heads for the door, ready to close the book on the case...and the wife's alarm clock goes off. Why would someone who's planning to commit suicide set their alarm clock to wake them up? The detective comes back, and says it's time to restart the interrogation from the top, as the husband breaks down.
*HoistByHisOwnPetard: Criminals often found their acts came undone due to their own mistakes.
*OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: The Whistler is only known by his monicker which comes from his ominous whistling.
A recurring theme of the series was that of criminals being undone by missing details, or by their own mistakes.
!I am the Whistler, and I know many tropes, for I walk by night.
*ConvictionByContradiction: One episode featured a man who killed his wife and made it look like a suicide. The police investigation and interrogation, conducted in the wife's apartment, has some close calls, but it looks like he's gotten away with it. The detective rises and heads for the door, ready to close the book on the case...and the wife's alarm clock goes off. Why would someone who's planning to commit suicide set their alarm clock to wake them up? The detective comes back, and says it's time to restart the interrogation from the top, as the husband breaks down.
*HoistByHisOwnPetard: Criminals often found their acts came undone due to their own mistakes.
*OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: The Whistler is only known by his monicker which comes from his ominous whistling.
