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** In the BBC Radio adaptation of ''Strong Poison'', Nurse Booth is voiced by Joan Hickson. It's faintly incongruous to hear Miss Climpson as the [[LittleOldLadyInvestigates investigative little old lady]] running rings round Literature/MissMarple herself.
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* HarsherinHindsight: In ''Strong Poison'', Lord Peter announces that he wants to prove Harriet's innocence absolutely, and that he'd rather see her hanged than have the public think she was a murderess who escaped justice. While he does secure her acquittal and identifies the real killer, later stories reveal that many in the public do still believe she was guilty and that he helped her pin the blame on someone else.
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* HarsherinHindsight: HarsherInHindsight: In ''Strong Poison'', Lord Peter announces that he wants to prove Harriet's innocence absolutely, and that he'd rather see her hanged than have the public think she was a murderess who escaped justice. While he does secure her acquittal and identifies the real killer, later stories reveal that many in the public do still believe she was guilty and that he helped her pin the blame on someone else.
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* Harsher in Hindsight: In ''Strong Poison'', Lord Peter announces that he wants to prove Harriet's innocence absolutely, and that he'd rather see her hanged than have the public think she was a murderess who escaped justice. While he does secure her acquittal and identifies the real killer, later stories reveal that many in the public do still believe she was guilty and that he helped her pin the blame on someone else.
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* Harsher in Hindsight: HarsherinHindsight: In ''Strong Poison'', Lord Peter announces that he wants to prove Harriet's innocence absolutely, and that he'd rather see her hanged than have the public think she was a murderess who escaped justice. While he does secure her acquittal and identifies the real killer, later stories reveal that many in the public do still believe she was guilty and that he helped her pin the blame on someone else.
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* CompleteMonster: Mary Whittaker from ''Unnatural Death'' cold-bloodedly murders her doting great-aunt; sacks, hunts down and murders her innocent maidservant; seduces and murders a trusting village girl; attempts to drug and murder both Lord Peter and an unsuspecting solicitor; bludgeons and attempts to murder Miss Climpson (who was collecting for charity at the time,) and tries to have her distant cousin, a devoted clergyman, hanged for her crimes. Her only motive was [[InheritanceMurder securing an inheritance]] that she would almost certainly have received anyway.
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* CompleteMonster: Mary Whittaker from ''Unnatural Death'' cold-bloodedly murders her doting great-aunt; sacks, hunts down and murders her innocent maidservant; seduces and murders a trusting village girl; attempts to drug and murder both Lord Peter and an unsuspecting solicitor; bludgeons and attempts to murder Miss Climpson (who was collecting for charity at the time,) time) and tries to have her distant cousin, a devoted clergyman, hanged for her crimes. Her only motive was [[InheritanceMurder securing an inheritance]] that she would almost certainly have received anyway.
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** At the end of "Strong Poison" Harriet wonders why Lord Peter is not there to celebrate her exoneration. Her friend tells her that if she wants Peter around, she'll have to send for him. She refuses to do so, but is told she will in time.
** Early in "Have His Carcase" Harriet is surprised to see Peter not long after she has discovered the body in question. He gently rebukes her for not letting him in on the investigation, and they go on as friends. Later on she is in a different mood and demands to know the real reason he showed up. He tells her, it was so she would not have been forced to send for him to protect her from another false accusation of murder.
** By the time of "Gaudy Night" she sends for him to help, and is a bit annoyed that he is away in Italy. She sends again later, and he is in Warsaw. At last she simply sends for him to come when he can. She has gone from refusing to see him to practically begging him to show up. And is at last realizing how unfairly she has taken advantage of his devotion and good nature. He was busy trying to fend off a second world war, and she had never bothered to think of him as anything but an amateur detective who like to take her to dinner. She insists to herself and others that she needs to be treated as an individual and independent, only to at last understand that this is the one man who always has done so.
** Early in "Have His Carcase" Harriet is surprised to see Peter not long after she has discovered the body in question. He gently rebukes her for not letting him in on the investigation, and they go on as friends. Later on she is in a different mood and demands to know the real reason he showed up. He tells her, it was so she would not have been forced to send for him to protect her from another false accusation of murder.
** By the time of "Gaudy Night" she sends for him to help, and is a bit annoyed that he is away in Italy. She sends again later, and he is in Warsaw. At last she simply sends for him to come when he can. She has gone from refusing to see him to practically begging him to show up. And is at last realizing how unfairly she has taken advantage of his devotion and good nature. He was busy trying to fend off a second world war, and she had never bothered to think of him as anything but an amateur detective who like to take her to dinner. She insists to herself and others that she needs to be treated as an individual and independent, only to at last understand that this is the one man who always has done so.
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** At the end of "Strong Poison" ''Strong Poison'' Harriet wonders why Lord Peter is not there to celebrate her exoneration. Her friend tells her that if she wants Peter around, she'll have to send for him. She refuses to do so, but is told she will in time.
** Early in"Have ''Have His Carcase" Carcase'' Harriet is surprised to see Peter not long after she has discovered the body in question. He gently rebukes her for not letting him in on the investigation, and they go on as friends. Later on she is in a different mood and demands to know the real reason he showed up. He tells her, it was so she would not have been forced to send for him to protect her from another false accusation of murder.
** By the time of"Gaudy Night" ''Gaudy Night'' she sends for him to help, and is a bit annoyed that he is away in Italy. She sends again later, and he is in Warsaw. At last she simply sends for him to come when he can. She has gone from refusing to see him to practically begging him to show up. And is at last realizing how unfairly she has taken advantage of his devotion and good nature. He was busy trying to fend off a second world war, and she had never bothered to think of him as know anything but more about him except as an amateur detective who like liked to take her to dinner. She insists to herself and others that she needs to be treated as an accomplished individual and independent, only to at last understand that this is the one man who always has done so.
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**At the end of "Strong Poison" Harriet wonders why Lord Peter is not there to celebrate her exoneration. Her friend tells her that if she wants Peter around, she'll have to send for him. She refuses to do so, but is told she will in time.
**Early in "Have His Carcase" Harriet is surprised to see Peter not long after she has discovered the body in question. He gently rebukes her for not letting him in on the investigation, and they go on as friends. Later on she is in a different mood and demands to know the real reason he showed up. He tells her, it was so she would not have been forced to send for him to protect her from another false accusation of murder.
**By the time of "Gaudy Night" she sends for him to help, and is a bit annoyed that he is away in Italy. She sends again later, and he is in Warsaw. At last she simply sends for him to come when he can. She has gone from refusing to see him to practically begging him to show up. And is at last realizing how unfairly she has taken advantage of his devotion and good nature. He was busy trying to fend off a second world war, and she had never bothered to think of him as anything but an amateur detective who like to take her to dinner. She insists to herself and others that she needs to be treated as an individual and independent, only to at last understand that this is the one man who always has done so.
**At the end of "Strong Poison" Harriet wonders why Lord Peter is not there to celebrate her exoneration. Her friend tells her that if she wants Peter around, she'll have to send for him. She refuses to do so, but is told she will in time.
**Early in "Have His Carcase" Harriet is surprised to see Peter not long after she has discovered the body in question. He gently rebukes her for not letting him in on the investigation, and they go on as friends. Later on she is in a different mood and demands to know the real reason he showed up. He tells her, it was so she would not have been forced to send for him to protect her from another false accusation of murder.
**By the time of "Gaudy Night" she sends for him to help, and is a bit annoyed that he is away in Italy. She sends again later, and he is in Warsaw. At last she simply sends for him to come when he can. She has gone from refusing to see him to practically begging him to show up. And is at last realizing how unfairly she has taken advantage of his devotion and good nature. He was busy trying to fend off a second world war, and she had never bothered to think of him as anything but an amateur detective who like to take her to dinner. She insists to herself and others that she needs to be treated as an individual and independent, only to at last understand that this is the one man who always has done so.
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* CompleteMonster: Mary Whittaker from ''Unnatural Death'' cold-bloodedly murders her doting great-aunt; sacks, hunts down and murders her innocent maidservant; seduces and murders a trusting village girl; attempts to drug and murder both Lord Peter and an unsuspecting solicitor; bludgeons and attempts to murder Miss Climpson (who was collecting for charity at the time,) and tries to have her distant cousin, a devoted clergyman, hanged for her crimes. Her only motive was securing an inheritance that she would almost certainly have received anyway.
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* CompleteMonster: Mary Whittaker from ''Unnatural Death'' cold-bloodedly murders her doting great-aunt; sacks, hunts down and murders her innocent maidservant; seduces and murders a trusting village girl; attempts to drug and murder both Lord Peter and an unsuspecting solicitor; bludgeons and attempts to murder Miss Climpson (who was collecting for charity at the time,) and tries to have her distant cousin, a devoted clergyman, hanged for her crimes. Her only motive was [[InheritanceMurder securing an inheritance inheritance]] that she would almost certainly have received anyway.
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* RetroactiveRecognition: In the BBC Radio adaptation of ''Strong Poison'', Nurse Booth is voiced by Joan Hickson. It's faintly incongruous to hear Miss Climpson as the [[LittleOldLadyInvestigates investigative little old lady]] running rings round Literature/MissMarple herself.
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** In the BBC Radio adaptation of ''Strong Poison'', Nurse Booth is voiced by Joan Hickson. It's faintly incongruous to hear Miss Climpson as the [[LittleOldLadyInvestigates investigative little old lady]] running rings round Literature/MissMarpleherself.herself.
** Also in the radio adaptations of ''Whose Body'' and ''Clouds of Witness'', [[Series/KeepingUpAppearances Hyacinth Bucket]] ("Bouquet!") is the Dowager Duchess.
** In the BBC Radio adaptation of ''Strong Poison'', Nurse Booth is voiced by Joan Hickson. It's faintly incongruous to hear Miss Climpson as the [[LittleOldLadyInvestigates investigative little old lady]] running rings round Literature/MissMarple
** Also in the radio adaptations of ''Whose Body'' and ''Clouds of Witness'', [[Series/KeepingUpAppearances Hyacinth Bucket]] ("Bouquet!") is the Dowager Duchess.
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* SpoiledByTheFormat: By the beginning of chapter 14 of ''The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club'', things seem to be wrapping up; Lord Peter has solved the problem he was asked to investigate and everything is lining up to confront the culprit. The reader however can tell that there's more to be revealed, because there remain 120 pages in the novel -- not to mention the fact that it's a murder mystery and so far there hasn't been (anything recognized as) a murder.
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** While [[spoiler: Annie]] has some genuinely awful beliefs about women, you might think they have a point about the classism of the S.C.R., until you remember they gaslighted a working-class scholarship student into attempting suicide, all just to create a scandal.
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* SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped: ''See'' MotiveRant on the main page. Earlier in the series, it's hard to know which aspect of [[spoiler:Sir Julian Freke's]] evil is most disturbing. Is it the creepy sexual [[GreenEyedMonster jealousy]], the anti-Semitism, or the "I'm a genius, so I'm [[AboveGoodAndEvil above mundane considerations of good and evil]]"?
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* ValuesResonance: ''Unnatural Death'' features an outwardly-wholesome white girl playing the WoundedGazelleGambit by murdering someone and pretending they were victims of a ScaryMinoritySuspect.
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* ValuesResonance: ''Unnatural Death'' features an outwardly-wholesome white girl playing the WoundedGazelleGambit by murdering someone someone, faking her own kidnapping, and pretending they were victims of a ScaryMinoritySuspect.
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* ValuesDissonance: In-story. "Wot this country really needs is a 'Itler." [[CaptainObvious It takes place (and was written) before the war broke out.]]
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** There's also the casual anti-Semitism and xenophobia re: "foreigners"--very characteristic of the period, but rather especially unattractive coming from such an obviously literate and intelligent author:
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* ValuesDissonance: In-story. "Wot this country really needs is a 'Itler." [[CaptainObvious It takes place (and was written) before the war broke out.]]
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** [[Tropers/BattleHamster This mentally ill troper]] was rather taken aback when one of the characters made a casual comment in favor of "sterilizing the unfit."
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** Also the villain of "The Incredible Elopement of Lord Peter Wimsey", who cold-bloodedly [[spoiler: isolates his beautiful, intelligent young wife in a remote foreign village and deprives her of the medication she relies on for her hypothyroidism, then watches as she slowly disintegrates mentally and physically into "less than a beast"--not only enjoying her frantic pleas as she feels reason slipping away, but giving her just enough treatment, at intervals, to make sure she fully realises the extent of her degradation. ''Then'' he casually invites the man he thinks is her lover over to enjoy his reaction.]]
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* ScienceMarchesOn: In Peter's defense, his cigarette ad in ''Murder Must Advertise'' came decades before the cancer link was discovered. However, a connection between smoking and reduced lifespan -- and the fact that must already be apparent to the tobacco companies that there is one -- is lampshaded in the discussions about the advertising campaign Peter masterminds. Collecting Whifflets coupons will allow the smoker to buy anything they want. Except a coffin, it not being admitted by the cigarette manufacturers that any smoker would ever need one.
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* NightmareFuel: The effects of [[spoiler:being inside a belfry when the bells are ringing]] in ''The Nine Tailors''.
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** Also the villain of "The Incredible Elopement of Lord Peter Wimsey", who cold-bloodedly [[spoiler: isolates his beautiful, intelligent young wife in a remote foreign village and deprives her of the medication she relies on for her hypothyroidism, then watches as she slowly disintegrates into "less than a beast"--not only enjoying her frantic pleas as she feels her reason slipping away, but giving her just enough treatment, at intervals, to make sure she fully realises the extent of her degradation. ''Then'' he casually invites the man he thinks is her lover over to enjoy his reaction.]]
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** Also the villain of "The Incredible Elopement of Lord Peter Wimsey", who cold-bloodedly [[spoiler: isolates his beautiful, intelligent young wife in a remote foreign village and deprives her of the medication she relies on for her hypothyroidism, then watches as she slowly disintegrates mentally and physically into "less than a beast"--not only enjoying her frantic pleas as she feels her reason slipping away, but giving her just enough treatment, at intervals, to make sure she fully realises the extent of her degradation. ''Then'' he casually invites the man he thinks is her lover over to enjoy his reaction.]]
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** Also the villain of "The Incredible Elopement of Lord Peter Wimsey", who cold-bloodedly [[spoiler: isolates his beautiful, intelligent young wife in a remote foreign village and deprives her of the medication she relies on for her hypothyroidism, then watches as she slowly disintegrates into "less than a beast"--not only enjoying her frantic pleas as she feels mental & physical control slipping away, but giving her just enough treatment, at intervals, to make sure she fully realises the extent of her degradation. ''Then'' he casually invites the man he thinks is her lover over to enjoy his reaction.]]
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** Also the villain of "The Incredible Elopement of Lord Peter Wimsey", who cold-bloodedly [[spoiler: isolates his beautiful, intelligent young wife in a remote foreign village and deprives her of the medication she relies on for her hypothyroidism, then watches as she slowly disintegrates into "less than a beast"--not only enjoying her frantic pleas as she feels mental & physical control her reason slipping away, but giving her just enough treatment, at intervals, to make sure she fully realises the extent of her degradation. ''Then'' he casually invites the man he thinks is her lover over to enjoy his reaction.]]
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** Also the villain of "The Incredible Elopement of Lord Peter Wimsey", who cold-bloodedly [[spoiler: isolates his beautiful, intelligent young wife in a remote foreign village and deprives her of the medication she relies on for her hypothyroidism, then watches as she slowly disintegrates into a mental and physical wreck--not only enjoying her frantic pleas as she feels reason slipping away, but giving her just enough treatment, at intervals, to make sure she fully realises the extent of her degradation. ''Then'' he casually invites the man he thinks is her lover over to enjoy his reaction to the literal drooling idiot she's become.]]
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** Also the villain of "The Incredible Elopement of Lord Peter Wimsey", who cold-bloodedly [[spoiler: isolates his beautiful, intelligent young wife in a remote foreign village and deprives her of the medication she relies on for her hypothyroidism, then watches as she slowly disintegrates into "less than a mental and physical wreck--not beast"--not only enjoying her frantic pleas as she feels reason mental & physical control slipping away, but giving her just enough treatment, at intervals, to make sure she fully realises the extent of her degradation. ''Then'' he casually invites the man he thinks is her lover over to enjoy his reaction to the literal drooling idiot she's become.reaction.]]
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