Could fit as Downplayed if nothing else. I could see lumping.
Rhymes with "Protracted."
Yeah, lump them.
edited 19th Oct '13 4:10:22 PM by MikuruFan
No, the other one.
@Discar: But that's a lie...
Crime After Crime is an escalated chain of Coverup Crime, and is sort of related to For Want Of A Nail. Considering the size of Crime After Crime, I think it can remain a subtrope of its own.
Check out my fanfiction!It is pretty close, though. If we have a supertrope, it would be nice to broaden it a little bit to give them some distance.
Rhymes with "Protracted."
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The definition also suggests a relation to Chain of Deals; successive crimes used to cover up the cover up of the cover up, with escalating intensity.
It should result in a Coverup Reveal, but there's...
- studying Crime 2 uncovers crime 1
- committing crime 2 so that people don't find out about crime 1
- committing crime 2, which prevents crime 1 from being discovered
All are valid tropes, but since most media I've seen have the police as the heroes and the criminals as the cops, we see tropes #2 and #3 from the perspective of trope #1. Crime #2 isn't supposed to be studied any more than crime 1 is, but Crime After Crime suggests that the criminal has to do crime #3 to cover up #2, and then #4 to prevent #3. A Chain of Deals to keep each crime hidden.
Trope #3 is supposed to prevent trope #1, because the case is open-and-shut. "It was arson, we're gonna keep looking for the guy." "Thank you, officer. Can I be of any help?"
Link to TRS threads in project mode here.
Crime After Crime sounds like a straightforward subtrope of Revealing Cover-Up to me.
...I don't actually have any opinion on whether to lump, though. That might be because I'm a little punchy from lack of sleep. 
Hi
Clock is set.
edited 20th Nov '13 7:29:07 AM by Willbyr
Hi
Clock's up; locking up.
That looks like multiple crimes, not just one after another. However, I don't think there is much distinction.