In Whispering Nickel Idols, Garrett meets Harvester Temisk, Chodo's lawyer, and is immediately struck by how the man's fortunes have taken a downturn. Temisk claims that Chodo had set up a trust to support his needs, but hadn't made good investments. Being a poor investor seems out-of-character for Chodo Contague, until you realize that Chodo has been comatose since Dread Brass Shadows, when the Cantard War was still going on: most likely, the trust was invested in military-supply contracts that'd been a staple of the Karentine economy for generations. Evil genius or not, Chodo had no way to anticipate that peace would break out within his lifetime, let alone within months of his own incapacity, and render most of these "solid investments" worthless.
Inverted regarding the Downer Ending of Bitter Gold Hearts Domina Dout is not going to be able to escape from a sorceress with 200,000 silver marks. Which is already decreasing in value massively due to the events in Cantard. The Stormwarden will eventually track her down, even with her lessened power, and get her.
Hawkes from Old Tin Sorrows was seriously wounded by an arrow while searching for poachers, then taken into the Stantnor mansion where he expired. Garrett encounters Jennifer, who'd been tending to the injured man, when she's looking for Dellwood to inform him that Hawkes died; she's flustered and pale, uncertain what to do. It's later revealed that Jennifer is the killer who's been eliminating her father's heirs, which strongly implies that she didn't just witness Hawkes's passing, but smothered the poor guy in his sickbed to finish the job and ensure he couldn't tell anyone who shot him.
Also from Old Tin Sorrows, the draugs that attack the mansion are deduced to have been raised up by Snake to seek vengeance on the person who'd murdered both him and them. Garrett expects as many as four such creatures could have risen, but only three actually appear, suggesting there's still one roaming around the estate when the novel ends. Worse, it's revealed at the end that Jennifer Stantnor also murdered three other men whose deaths appeared natural or accidental. This means there's a good chance that three more draugs are buried in the Stantnor manor cemetery, slowly digging their way to the surface... and once Peters re-enlists, there won't be any more soldiers left to stop them from ganging up on Cook, who's very old and alone, however big.
There's a chance they went to rest when Jennifer died. And Cook might not have stayed in the manor, with everyone else gone..
In Faded Steel Heat, Venable mentions that his thunder-lizard guard beasts won't eat carrion. The unrecognizable corpse of Marengo North English is later found on the estate, clearly having been chewed up by thunder-lizard teeth. Although it's not stated, the implication is clear: the shapeshifters didn't just murder the victim outright, they abducted him and fed him alive to the thunder lizards!
