History Fanfic / TheCuriousCaseOfMrPamuk

* AbsurdlyElderlyMother: Implied with Viscount Branksome and his offscreen wife, considering that Branksome is mentioned to have been close to Violet's age (he is mentioned as a contemporary of her husband the previous Earl) and his son Evelyn is only a few years older than Mary.

* BigBad: [[spoiler:Evelyn Napier masterminded Kemal Pamuk's death on behalf of the British government.]]

** The story suggests why there's a cat in Episode 5 of Series 1 when O'Brien is startled by a mouse and she suggests raising a cat to catch them.

* JerkassHasAPoint: Mary often belittles Edith, but even Anna, who rarely has a bad word to say about anyone, has to privately criticize Edith's fashion choices when she notes a particular dress makes her look like a frog and is tempted to steal and bury it so Edith won't find it.

* JerkassHasAPoint: Mary often belittles Edith, but even Anna, who rarely has a bad word to say about anyone, has to privately criticize Edith's fashion choices when she notes a particular dress makes her look like a frog and is tempted to steal and bury it so Edith won't be able to find it.

* AdaptationExpansion: Bates' backstory. Between his work with Molesley and serving in the Beor Wars, he'd served [[spoiler:the Napiers, where he'd been friends with the young Evelyn.]] Furthermore, [[spoiler:the theft of the regimental silver Bates was imprisoned for was an even messier affair than in canon because Vera's accomplice attacked and wounded one of the guards. It was because of Evelyn's father that Bates only served a couple years for the theft and the rest of the details omitted, a debt that Bates pays by helping Napier get rid of Pamuk.]]

* AgeGapRomance: Implied with Viscount Branksome and his offscreen wife, considering that Branksome is mentioned to have been close to the Dowager Countess' age and his son Evelyn is only a few years older than Mary.

* AdaptationExpansion: Bates' backstory. Between his work with Molesley and serving in the Beor Wars, he'd served [[spoiler:the Napiers, where he'd been friends with the young Evelyn.]] Furthermore, [[spoiler:the theft of the regimental silver Bates was imprisoned for was an even messier affair than in canon because Vera's accomplice attacked and wounded one of the guards. It was because of Evelyn's father that Bates only served a couple years for the theft and the rest of the details omitted, a debt that Bates pays by assisting Napier get rid of Pamuk.]]

* TheNondescript: Evelyn Napier's valet... Alan? Adam? Alec? His appearance and even his name are easily forgotten, which makes him a RedHerring.

* TheHeavy: Anna's plotline to solve Kemal Pamuk's murder is driven by his ghost, which nearly causes Lady Mary to kill herself at least once.

* TheNondescript: Evelyn Napier's valet Alec... or Alex. His appearance and even his name are easily forgotten, which makes him a RedHerring.

* HistoricalDomainCharacter: [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Melville William Melville]], head of Scotland Yard's Special Branch. The Napiers are [[HistoricalCharactersFictionalRelative cousins]] of his.

* JerkassHasAPoint: Mary often belittles Edith, but even Anna, who rarely has a bad word to say about anyone, has to privately criticize Edith's fashion choices when she notes a particular dress makes her look like a frog.

* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler:Both Bates and Napier believe that poison was too good for someone like Pamuk.]]

* ObfuscatingStupidity: [[spoiler:Viscount Branksome (Evelyn Napier's father) pretended to be an oaf only interested in hunting and horse-racing. In reality, he was an agent in the British foreign office who's heavily implied to have killed for the British government.]]

* GenreShift: ''Downton Abbey'' was primarily a historical drama, but moves into a whodunit and GhostStory. The last chapter shifts the story ''again'' into [[spoiler:Stale Beer SpyFiction, albeit with much older agencies.]]

* TookALevelInJerkass: Thomas is noted to have become even more unpleasant after the Duke of Crowborough's visit.

** Violet alludes to her past as part of the court of the Duke of Edinburgh, where she met Prince Kuragin in canon.

* ItRunsInTheFamily: Kemal Pamuk suffered from heart problems inherited from his grandfather and was taking aconite as a tonic

* MakeItLookLikeAnAccident: [[spoiler:Evelyn Napier told Bates to give Pamuk some laudanum to make him fall asleep, but actually gave him an overdose of his heart medication, letting Bates believe he'd mixed the vials up.]]

* TheManBehindTheMan: [[spoiler:William Melville to Evelyn Napier. And behind ''him'' is an unknown political figure who ordered Pamuk's murder.]]

** Violet alludes to her past as part of the court of the Duke of Edinburgh, where she met Prince Kuragin.

* GenreShift: ''Downton Abbey'' was primarily a historical drama, but moves into a whodunit and GhostStory.

* AgeGapRomance: Implied with Viscount Branksome and his offscreen wife, considering that Branksome is mentioned to have been close to the Dowager Countess' age.

''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/24316333/chapters/58621849 The Curious Case of Mr. Pamuk]]'' is a ''Series/DowntonAbbey'' fanfic where Anna Smith, head housemaid at Downton Abbey, starts her own investigation into the death of Kemal Pamuk after he dies in Lady Mary's bed.

* PlotTriggeringDeath: Kemal Pamuk's sudden death kicks off the plot.

* ObfuscatingStupidity: [[spoiler:Viscount Branksome pretended to be an oaf only interested in hunting and horse-racing. In reality, he was an agent in the British foreign office who's heavily implied to have killed for the British government.]]