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* The title of the story is a reference to the non-fiction book ''Clubland Heroes'' by Richard Usborne, an influential work of British pop-culture criticism studying the work of Creator/JohnBuchan, [[Literature/BulldogDrummond "Sapper"]], and Dornford Yates, arguing that they were the most significant examples of a wider school of inter-war British thriller marked by RichIdiotWithNoDayJob or GentlemanAdventurer heroes, espionage-related content, and frequently right-wing and, by today's standards, very bigoted political views.
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* The traditional attributes of the five school Houses -- Goneril, Tamora, Viola, Ariel, and Desdemona -- are summarized as [[Music/SpiceGirls "sporty", "terrifying", "babies", "posh", and "red-headed stepchildren"]], respectively.
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* The traditional attributes of the five school Houses -- [[Creator/WilliamShakespeare Goneril, Tamora, Viola, Ariel, and Desdemona Desdemona]] -- are summarized as [[Music/SpiceGirls "sporty", "terrifying", "babies", "posh", and "red-headed stepchildren"]], respectively.
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* The complete school roll at the end includes a student never mentioned in the novel called [[Series/DoctorWho Susan Foreman]].
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* St Cuthbert's is sarcastically referred to as [[Literature/{{Molesworth}} St Custard's]].
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* The title is a reference to ''[[Literature/TheQuestForKarla Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy]]'', with the search for "a Rat amongst the Ravens" paralleling the search for TheMole in the Circus.
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* In the chapter set during WWII, there's a discussion of magical artifacts that might be used in the war effort by the {{Ghostapo}}, and Edwin mentions that [[Film/RaidersOfTheLostArk the Allies have the Ark of the Covenant]].
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* The jewel is compared to Literature/{{the Green Eye of the Little Yellow God}} and Literature/{{the Moonstone}}.
* In the chapter set in the 1890s, Charles consults with Literature/CarnackiTheGhostFinder and Creator/ArthurMachen.
* Sir Joseph Whemple, the mummy's first named victim, is from ''Film/TheMummy1932''.
* Some of the names dropped by Declan Mountmain come from the Franchise/CthulhuMythos.
* The chapter title "The Trouble With Barrymore" is a play on ''Film/TheTroubleWithHarry''; both stories involve a corpse that keeps moving around.
* In the chapter set during WWII, Edwin's occult taskforce includes Creator/ManlyWadeWellman's characters John Thunstone and Judge Keith Pursuivant, as well as Creator/JosephPayneBrennan's Lucius Leffing, Creator/SeaburyQuinn's character Jules deGrandin. Grandin and Creator/AlgernonBlackwood's Dr John Silence.
* The chapter set in 1940s Hollywood includes references to a bunch of Creator/HumphreyBogart movies, including ''Film/TheBigSleep'', ''Film/TheMalteseFalcon'', and ''Film/{{Casablanca}}''.
* According a later chapter, the events of the 1940s chapter (with its first-person private eye narrator) were written up for ''Black Mask'' magazine, leading to that issue being suppressed. ''Black Mask'' was the magazine where Creator/RaymondChandler published the first-person private eye stories that evolved into his Literature/PhilipMarlowe novels.
* In the chapter set in the 1890s, Charles consults with Literature/CarnackiTheGhostFinder and Creator/ArthurMachen.
* Sir Joseph Whemple, the mummy's first named victim, is from ''Film/TheMummy1932''.
* Some of the names dropped by Declan Mountmain come from the Franchise/CthulhuMythos.
* The chapter title "The Trouble With Barrymore" is a play on ''Film/TheTroubleWithHarry''; both stories involve a corpse that keeps moving around.
* In the chapter set during WWII, Edwin's occult taskforce includes Creator/ManlyWadeWellman's characters John Thunstone and Judge Keith Pursuivant, as well as Creator/JosephPayneBrennan's Lucius Leffing, Creator/SeaburyQuinn's character Jules de
* The chapter set in 1940s Hollywood includes references to a bunch of Creator/HumphreyBogart movies, including ''Film/TheBigSleep'', ''Film/TheMalteseFalcon'', and ''Film/{{Casablanca}}''.
* According a later chapter, the events of the 1940s chapter (with its first-person private eye narrator) were written up for ''Black Mask'' magazine, leading to that issue being suppressed. ''Black Mask'' was the magazine where Creator/RaymondChandler published the first-person private eye stories that evolved into his Literature/PhilipMarlowe novels.
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* The cyberpunk future seen in the final two chapters is meant includes links to mimic the one in several of Newman's science-fiction works, including the short stories "Where the Bodies Are Buried 2020" and "Patricia's Profession", the ''Literature/DarkFuture'' series, and his first novel, ''Literature/TheNightMayor''.
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* The idea of a worm being the "brains" of an evil plot is a shout-out to ''[[ComicBook/{{Shazam}} Captain Marvel]]'' villain Mr. Mind.
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* Richard's internal monologue namedrops a few former club members, among them [[Series/AdamAdamantLives Adam Adamant]] and a few early occult detective characters: Flaxman Low (works of Hesketh Hesketh-Prichard), the Incredible Robert Baldick (created by [[Creator/TerryNation]]), and Cursitor Doom (''Smash!'' comics).
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* The future seen in the final two chapters is meant to mimic the one in Newman's first novel, ''Literature/TheNightMayor''.
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!!Literature/TheSerialMurders
* Barbara Corri got her college education at the same fictional Oxford college as [[Literature/LordPeterWimsey Harriet Vane]].
* Barbara Corri got her college education at the same fictional Oxford college as [[Literature/LordPeterWimsey Harriet Vane]].
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* The Undertaking have their base on Egdon Heath, the fictional moorland in the works of Creator/ThomasHardy.
* In one of the Literature/SherlockHolmes stories, Watson mentions the unsolved case of "Isadora Persano, the wellknown journalist and duellist, who was found stark staring mad with a matchbox in front of him which contained a remarkable worm, said to be unknown to science." In this series, Persano was a Great Enchanter defeated by the Diogenes Club and their allies in 1903, and he and the worm were taken into custody by the Undertaking. The worm was a sapient alien life-form, and apparently of the two it was the brains of the operation.
* Literature/SirHenryMerrivale is mentioned as another member of the Diogenes Club.[[note]]Which he actually was in his own canon, because his creator was Sherlock Holmes fan.[[/note]]
* In one of the Literature/SherlockHolmes stories, Watson mentions the unsolved case of "Isadora Persano, the wellknown journalist and duellist, who was found stark staring mad with a matchbox in front of him which contained a remarkable worm, said to be unknown to science." In this series, Persano was a Great Enchanter defeated by the Diogenes Club and their allies in 1903, and he and the worm were taken into custody by the Undertaking. The worm was a sapient alien life-form, and apparently of the two it was the brains of the operation.
* Literature/SirHenryMerrivale is mentioned as another member of the Diogenes Club.[[note]]Which he actually was in his own canon, because his creator was Sherlock Holmes fan.[[/note]]
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* Dr. Martin Hesselius (the occult detective created by Creator/JosephSheridanLeFanu) and Dr. John Silence (an occult detective created by Creator/AlgernonBlackwood) are mentioned among those who took an interest in Rose Farrar's disappearance.
* After fending off a monster with a crucifix, Sir Arthur says he tried it because the creature's fangs had reminded him of ''Literature/{{Dracula}}''.
* When Crowley expounds his theory of what's going on, Catriona accuses him of ripping off the plot of ''Literature/TheGreatGodPan''.
* The combination of fair folk and things happening because people believe in them leads Catriona at one point to think of ''Literature/PeterPan''.
!!Literature/TheGypsiesInTheWood
* Charles mentions owning a copy of ''De Vermis Mysteriis'', a grimoire from the Franchise/CthulhuMythos.
* Charles's library also includes an edition of ''The Collected Poems of Jeffrey Aspern'', the central character of Creator/HenryJames's ''The Aspern Papers''.
* The goblins lure Dickie into a trap with a trail of Clues that include "a dish of butter with a sprig of parsley sunk into it, a dead canary bleached white, a worm unknown to science" (references to NoodleIncident untold cases from the Literature/SherlockHolmes stories) and "a cigarette end with three distinctive bands" (the signature of the custom-made cigarettes smoked in real life by Creator/IanFleming and in fiction by Literature/JamesBond).
* The author Creator/GeorgeMacDonald and the artist Arthur Rackham are mentioned as other people whose fictional creations have been influenced by the Fair Folk.
* Some of Dickie's family call him "Hawkshaw", after the detective in the 1863 play ''The Ticket-of-Leave Man'' whose name became a byword for "detective" the way "Sherlock" did for later generations. The narration implies that Hawkshaw actually existed in-universe.
* Inspector Mist is said to be part of the Bureau of Queer Complaints. This is a reference to a book written by Creator/JohnDicksonCarr, which was adapted in the fifties into a TV series called ''Colonel March of Scotland Yard''.
* The Diogenes Club's "Green Ribbon Files", cases deemed unsolvable and placed where people will hopefully forget about them, are a reference to ''Series/TheXFiles''.
* Dr. Martin Hesselius (the occult detective created by Creator/JosephSheridanLeFanu) and Dr. John Silence (an occult detective created by Creator/AlgernonBlackwood) are mentioned among those who took an interest in Rose Farrar's disappearance.
* After fending off a monster with a crucifix, Sir Arthur says he tried it because the creature's fangs had reminded him of ''Literature/{{Dracula}}''.
* When Crowley expounds his theory of what's going on, Catriona accuses him of ripping off the plot of ''Literature/TheGreatGodPan''.
* The combination of fair folk and things happening because people believe in them leads Catriona at one point to think of ''Literature/PeterPan''.
!!Literature/TheGypsiesInTheWood
* Charles mentions owning a copy of ''De Vermis Mysteriis'', a grimoire from the Franchise/CthulhuMythos.
* Charles's library also includes an edition of ''The Collected Poems of Jeffrey Aspern'', the central character of Creator/HenryJames's ''The Aspern Papers''.
* The goblins lure Dickie into a trap with a trail of Clues that include "a dish of butter with a sprig of parsley sunk into it, a dead canary bleached white, a worm unknown to science" (references to NoodleIncident untold cases from the Literature/SherlockHolmes stories) and "a cigarette end with three distinctive bands" (the signature of the custom-made cigarettes smoked in real life by Creator/IanFleming and in fiction by Literature/JamesBond).
* The author Creator/GeorgeMacDonald and the artist Arthur Rackham are mentioned as other people whose fictional creations have been influenced by the Fair Folk.
* Some of Dickie's family call him "Hawkshaw", after the detective in the 1863 play ''The Ticket-of-Leave Man'' whose name became a byword for "detective" the way "Sherlock" did for later generations. The narration implies that Hawkshaw actually existed in-universe.
* Inspector Mist is said to be part of the Bureau of Queer Complaints. This is a reference to a book written by Creator/JohnDicksonCarr, which was adapted in the fifties into a TV series called ''Colonel March of Scotland Yard''.
* The Diogenes Club's "Green Ribbon Files", cases deemed unsolvable and placed where people will hopefully forget about them, are a reference to ''Series/TheXFiles''.
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* Catriona recalls an occasion on which she and Edwin matched wits with "[[Film/TheAssassinationBureau Ivan Dragomiloff, the self-proclaimed 'ethical assassin']]".
* When Catriona is trying to guess why the Diogenes is getting involved in a murder investigation, one of her guesses is that it was committed via "the venomous bite of a worm unknown to science". An unsolved case involving "a remarkable worm, said to be unknown to science" is mentioned as a NoodleIncident in the Literature/SherlockHolmes story "The Problem of Thor Bridge".
* One of the Splendids' old adventures involved fighting "terror lizards" in Maple White Land. Maple White Land is the South American plateau with the remnant dinosaur population that is the setting of Creator/ArthurConanDoyle's ''Literature/{{The Lost World|1912}}''.
* The endurance stunt the Mystic Maharajah attempts near the end of the story is a parody of the endurance stunts done by stage magician David Blaine, particularly the "Above the Below" stunt he did in London in 2003.
* The title of the story is a reference to the non-fiction book ''Clubland Heroes'' by Richard Usborne, an influential work of British pop-culture criticism studying the work of John Buchan, "Sapper", and Dornford Yates, arguing that they were the most significant examples of a wider school of inter-war British thriller marked by RichIdiotWithNoDayJob or GentlemanAdventurer heroes, espionage-related content, and frequently right-wing and, by today's standards, very bigoted political views.
!!Literature/SorcererConjurerWizardWitch
* Mention is made of an operation by the Diogenes Club's American counterparts a few years earlier to clean up [[Literature/TheShadowOverInnsmouth Innsmouth, Massachusetts]].
* Charles and Geneviève have a conversation about [[Literature/{{Dracula}} Professor Van Helsing]].
* The warden of the ExtranormalPrison mentions "the Lake [=LaMetrie=] elasmosaur", from "The Monster of Lake [=LaMetrie=]" by Wardon Allan Curtis.
* Geneviève's alias of Geneva Deodati is a reference to the Villa Diodati in Geneva, Switzerland, which holds a special place in the history of horror because it's where Mary Shelley came up with the idea for ''Literature/{{Frankenstein}}'' and Polidori came up with ''Literature/TheVampyre''.
* Literature/CarnackiTheGhostFinder and Doctor Nikola (a supervillain created by Guy Boothby) are named among the people who joined forces to help defeat Isadore Persano.
* Geneviève mentions a gang war between the [[Recap/DoctorWhoS14E6TheTalonsOfWengChiang Tong of Weng-Chiang]] and the [[Literature/FuManchu Si Fan]].
* Named associates of the Diogenes Club include [[Literature/TheManWhoWouldBeKing Danny Dravot]], Baroness Orczy's PhoneInDetective known only as "the old man in the corner", Literature/SirHenryMerrivale, [[Creator/AlgernonBlackwood Dr John Silence]], Harry Dickson (the French pulp hero called "the American Sherlock Holmes"), and Morris Klaw (an occult detective, one of the less-known creations of Sax Rohmer, creator of Literature/FuManchu).
* Characters who have been refused association with the Diogenes Club due to being unprofessional and/or excessively violent include [[Literature/{{Dracula}} Abraham Van Helsing]], Literature/BulldogDrummond, and Michael Bellamy (from ''The Green Archer'' by Edgar Wallace).
* Geneviève compares Zenf to Napoleon, Literature/{{Dracula}}, and the Beetle. ''The Beetle'' was a horror novel by Richard Marsh that came out the same year as ''Dracula'' and was initially the bigger hit.
* Margery Device's surname is a historical shout-out: several women with that surname were among the accused in the Lancashire witch trial of 1612, one of the largest and most famous witch hunts in English history.
* Literature/SherlockHolmes's nemesis Professor Moriarty is mentioned a couple of times, once to compare Zenf to him, and once while describing Sorcerer's professional qualifications as an astronomer; apparently he debunked Moriarty's famous work ''The Dynamics of an Asteroid'', which according to this story predicted that said asteroid was on a disastrous collision course with Earth.
* The list of Zenf's associates includes [[Film/TheMagician Oliver Haddo]], [[Film/RosemarysBaby Adrian Marcato]], Hamish Corbie (from ''The Death of the King's Canary'' by Creator/DylanThomas and John Davenport), Anselm Oakes (from "A Visit to Anselm Oakes" by Christopher Isherwood), [[Film/TheBlackCat Hjalmar Poelzig]], [[Literature/TheDevilRidesOut Mocata]], and [[Film/NightoftheDemon Julian Karswell]]. (As a fun side-note, nearly everbody on this list was a NoCelebritiesWereHarmed version of Creator/AleisterCrowley, which might be intended to imply that so is Zenf -- although Crowley himself has also appeared in the series.)
* The official portrait of Mycroft in Charles's office was painted by Hallward, the artist who painted Literature/{{the picture of Dorian Gray}}. Charles comments that he feels "the artist had not, in this case, truly captured his subject's soul."
* One of the guests at Margery's party is wearing a pair of ruby cufflinks made from the eyes of a golden pagan idol, a reference to "The Green Eye of the Yellow God" by J Milton Hayes, in which an Englishman steals one of the emerald eyes of a pagan idol and suffers a terrible fate.
* The guests at Margery's party include [[Literature/BlandingsCastle the Earl of Emsworth]].
* The subjects of Margery's society gossip include, among various real-life figures, [[Literature/TheSaint Simon Templar]], [[Film/PandoraAndTheFlyingDutchman Pandora Reynolds]], [[Literature/JeevesAndWooster Roderick Spode]], [[Literature/TheMurderOfRogerAckroyd Roger Ackroyd]], [[Literature/{{Rebecca}} Rebecca DeWinter]], Literature/LordPeterWimsey, Literature/PhiloVance, [[Literature/FuManchu Dennis Nayland-Smith]], Literature/MissMarple, and both Sexton Blake and Sexton Blake's nemesis Zenith the Albino (who Margery claims is not a real albino at all, but dyes his hair for effect).
* The animated waxworks of famous murderers include, among various real-life figures, [[Literature/TheHoundOfTheBaskervilles Rodger Baskerville]], [[Literature/VarneyTheVampire Sir Francis Varney]], [[Theatre/TheBeggarsOpera Captain Macheath]], [[Literature/TheWomanInWhite Sir Percival Glyde]], [[Film/{{M}} Franz Beckert]], and Theatre/SweeneyTodd.
* Among the acts performing at the same theatre as the Great Edmondo are [[Film/The39Steps1935 Mr Memory]] and a NoCelebritiesWereHarmed version of comic monologist Stanley Holloway.
* Catriona has written a monograph on Martin Hesselius (a trope-codifying occult detective created by Creator/JosephSheridanLeFanu).
* Geneviève name-drops [[Literature/{{Carmilla}} Millie Karnstein]], [[Literature/TheVampyre Lord Ruthven]], and Literature/{{Dracula}} as vampires she has known.
* There's a mention of a London gang called the [[Literature/SherlockHolmes New Red-Headed League]].
* Dr Chambers' medical supplies include [[Film/TheMummysHand tana leaves]].
* While helping thwart Zenf's demonic summoning, Catriona mentions precedents involving Frank Chandler (from the radio series ''Chandu the Magician'') and the [[Literature/TheDevilRidesOut Duc de Richeleau]], and an incident in [[Literature/ThePrisonerOfZenda Strelsau]].
* Geneviève compares a villain to Literature/{{Fantomas}} and Literature/ArseneLupin.
* During a discussion of doorways-between-worlds located around London, Margery says she's heard of one associated with "[[Series/DoctorWho one of those 'not for the use of the public' telephone box affairs]]", adding that it "comes and goes".
* Mycroft's contingency plan for dealing with Zenf has the subtitle "With Notes Upon the Segregation of a Great Enchanter". After his retirement, Literature/SherlockHolmes wrote ''Practical Handbook of Bee Culture, with Some Observations upon the Segregation of the Queen''.
!!Literature/TheSecretsOfDrearcliffGrangeSchool
* A remote and sinister mansion called "Drearcliff House" is the setting of ''Film/SherlockHolmesAndTheHouseOfFear''.
* The traditional attributes of the five school Houses -- Goneril, Tamora, Viola, Ariel, and Desdemona -- are summarized as [[Music/SpiceGirls "sporty", "terrifying", "babies", "posh", and "red-headed stepchildren"]], respectively.
* Students mentioned in passing during the story include an American girl named [[Series/TheAddamsFamily Tish Frump]], another American named Janice Marsh (of the [[Literature/TheShadowOverInnsmouth Innsmouth Marshes]]) and a girl named Sally Nikola with a notorious father (implied to be Guy Boothby's Dr Nikola).
* Another student is named ten Brincken, and was reportedly grown rather than born. This is a reference to the 1930's German film ''Alraune'' (the girl in question also appears in ''Literature/AngelsOfMusic'').
* Frost and Thorn are pupils with respectively [[AnIcePerson ice]] and [[PlayingWithFire fire]] powers, who in the DistantFinale turn out to have become [[ComicBook/TheFlash supervillainous partners]].
* The complete school roll at the end includes a student never mentioned in the novel called [[Series/DoctorWho Susan Foreman]].
* Posters for a cancelled school play set partially in the Antarctic feature [[Film/TheThing1982 a gruesome cuttlefish-like thing emerging from a husky's head]].
* One of the Black Skirt trios are given the collective nickname of "[[Film/GhidorahTheThreeHeadedMonster the Ghidorah]]".
* When Amy learns about Paquinget's GreenThumb, she wonders if there's a plant-themed other dimension called the Green to go with the Purple that is connected to several of the other Unusuals' abilities. In ''ComicBook/SwampThing'', the existence of the Green is a major plot point.
* At one point, the werewolf girl Gould is described as having her eyes bulging in astonishment "like the Big Bad Wolf in the fairy tale". It's actually a shout-out to the animated film "WesternAnimation/RedHotRidingHood", which the narration can't reference directly because it wasn't made until after when the book is set.
* There's a mention of a group of villains attempting a FossilRevival on a rhedosaurus, the fictional dinosaur from ''Film/TheBeastFromTwentyThousandFathoms''.
!!Literature/TheHauntingOfDrearcliffGrangeSchool
* The rumor about the Black Sow that lurks in "Under-London" is a nod to the Beast of London Below in ''Literature/{{Neverwhere}}''.
* One of the locations in the scavenger hunt is [[Literature/{{Dracula}} Count Dracula's now-abandoned London residence]]. Among the inexplicable rubbish scattered about the place is [[Film/Dracula1931 the long-dried-out shell of an armadillo]].
* Another of the locations is Literature/SherlockHolmes themed: it's the location of the [[Literature/AStudyInScarlet first murder Holmes and Watson investigated together]], and the item to be retrieved is disguised in the manner of the macguffin in "The Six Napoleons".
* Another Literature/SherlockHolmes reference: Moria Kratides is the daughter of Sophy Kratides from "The Greek Interpreter".
* When Knowles is recounting what she's learned about the history of the Broken Doll, part of it is an untold adventure of Literature/CarnackiTheGhostFinder.
* Knowles uses an Electric Pentacle, Carnacki's signature protective device, in the confrontation at the Music Room, and it proves capable of suppressing the telekinetic powers of both Amy and the Broken Doll.
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!!Multiple stories
* TheMenInBlack who work for the Undertaking have code names like Mr. Hay, Mr. Bee and Mr. Sea, which is probably a ShoutOut to the names in ''Franchise/MenInBlack''.
!!Literature/TheEndOfThePierShow
* Marshall Michaelsmith is named after one of Newman's fellow British dark-fantasy authors, Creator/MichaelMarshallSmith.
!!You Don't Have to Be Mad...
* Dr. Iain Menzies Ballance is named after one of Newman's fellow British dark-fantasy authors, Creator/IainBanks.
!!Seven Stars
* The central {{MacGuffin}} is Literature/TheJewelOfSevenStars.
!!The Man Who Got Off the Ghost Train
* The express train's colorful history includes a notorious incident involving [[Franchise/SherlockHolmes Colonel Sebastian Moran]]. The details are different, but this is a shout-out to ''Film/TerrorByNight'', in which Moran is the villain, and which is likewise set on an express train to Scotland with a {{MacGuffin}} the heroes are guarding.
!!Richard Riddle, Boy Detective in "The Case of the French Spy"
* There's a maritime mystery involving a ship called the ''Sophy Briggs'', which is a double reference. One of Literature/SherlockHolmes's untold cases involved a ship called the ''Matilda Briggs'', and Sophy Briggs was the youngest of the passengers who disappeared mysteriously from the ''Mary Celeste''. Also, Holmes describes the case of the ''Matilda Briggs'' as "a story for which the world is not yet prepared", and the protagonist of "The Case of the French Spy" describes his own adventure the same way.
* Violet quotes from Creator/RudyardKipling's "A Smuggler's Song" -- which is a neat trick, because the story is set during the Second Boer War and Kipling didn't publish the poem until several years after the war ended.
* References to the Franchise/CthulhuMythos: Violet speculates that the Fish Person is from "Atlantis or Lyonessse or R'lyeh", and the only word of the Fish Person's language that's transcribed is "f'tagn" (which Dick suspects is a swear word).
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* TheMenInBlack who work for the Undertaking have code names like Mr. Hay, Mr. Bee and Mr. Sea, which is probably a ShoutOut to the names in ''Franchise/MenInBlack''.
!!Literature/TheEndOfThePierShow
* Marshall Michaelsmith is named after one of Newman's fellow British dark-fantasy authors, Creator/MichaelMarshallSmith.
!!You Don't Have to Be Mad...
* Dr. Iain Menzies Ballance is named after one of Newman's fellow British dark-fantasy authors, Creator/IainBanks.
!!Seven Stars
* The central {{MacGuffin}} is Literature/TheJewelOfSevenStars.
!!The Man Who Got Off the Ghost Train
* The express train's colorful history includes a notorious incident involving [[Franchise/SherlockHolmes Colonel Sebastian Moran]]. The details are different, but this is a shout-out to ''Film/TerrorByNight'', in which Moran is the villain, and which is likewise set on an express train to Scotland with a {{MacGuffin}} the heroes are guarding.
!!Richard Riddle, Boy Detective in "The Case of the French Spy"
* There's a maritime mystery involving a ship called the ''Sophy Briggs'', which is a double reference. One of Literature/SherlockHolmes's untold cases involved a ship called the ''Matilda Briggs'', and Sophy Briggs was the youngest of the passengers who disappeared mysteriously from the ''Mary Celeste''. Also, Holmes describes the case of the ''Matilda Briggs'' as "a story for which the world is not yet prepared", and the protagonist of "The Case of the French Spy" describes his own adventure the same way.
* Violet quotes from Creator/RudyardKipling's "A Smuggler's Song" -- which is a neat trick, because the story is set during the Second Boer War and Kipling didn't publish the poem until several years after the war ended.
* References to the Franchise/CthulhuMythos: Violet speculates that the Fish Person is from "Atlantis or Lyonessse or R'lyeh", and the only word of the Fish Person's language that's transcribed is "f'tagn" (which Dick suspects is a swear word).
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