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* HighClassGlass: Sally wears a monocle. It's left ambiguous if she's actually short-sighted or just thinks it makes her look clever.
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''A Blunt Instrument'' is a 1938 murder mystery novel by Creator/GeorgetteHeyer.
Ernest Fletcher is found bludgeoned to death in his study. The police are baffled, firstly because he was popular with everyone and secondly because the witnesses' statements about the time of the murder are irreconcilable. Four suspects are immediately obvious: the woman Fletcher was blackmailing, her husband, Fletcher's nephew, and the ex-boyfriend of an actress Fletcher had an affair with. The first three are ruled out after questioning. The fourth is found dead, murdered in the exact same way as Fletcher...
!!Contains examples of:
* AssholeVictim: Fletcher is originally portrayed as a nice old guy. However, it soon turns out he's a DirtyOldMan, [[spoiler: which explains why he was killed.]]
* AsTheGoodBookSays: Glass gets on everyone's nerves by quoting the most depressing verses from the Old Testament. Neville and Hemingway have some fun by quoting it back on him.
* CoversAlwaysLie: [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/blunt_instrument.jpg This cover]]. Nothing like this scene happens in the book. (Even assuming the woman is Angela, she's such a minor character that she doesn't warrant an appearance on the cover.)
* DetectiveMole: [[spoiler:The local police constable who "found" the body, PC Glass, is the murderer, and the titular weapon was his police truncheon]].
* DrivenToSuicide: Angela killed herself by putting her head in an oven after Fletcher left her.
* FairPlayWhodunnit: ''Might'' be intentional... but if not, Heyer was probably having an off day.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: [[spoiler: Glass]] refuses to look at a photo of Angela and makes a gloomy prediction about her coming to a bad end. Other characters comment several times on his sanity or lack thereof.
* TheFundamentalist: Constable Glass, to his superiors' annoyance. [[spoiler: And to a murderous extent.]]
* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: One early chapter includes some of the suspects thinking about how to get some [=IOUs=] out of a safe. Failing completely, they immediately {{lampshade}} the situation by pointing out how much easier it would be if they were all characters in a detective novel.
* NeverOneMurder: Everyone is trying to make sense of Fletcher's murder and its apparently-impossible timing. The police visit a suspected blackmailer who may have been at the scene of the crime, and find he's been murdered in the same way as Fletcher.
* PosthumousCharacter: Angela's photo is found among Fletcher's belongings. Angela herself died before the book starts.
* RepetitiveName: Angela Angel. Justified since it was a stage name. Her real name was the non-repetitive [[spoiler: Rachel Glass]].
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''A Blunt Instrument'' is a 1938 murder mystery novel by Creator/GeorgetteHeyer.
Ernest Fletcher is found bludgeoned to death in his study. The police are baffled, firstly because he was popular with everyone and secondly because the witnesses' statements about the time of the murder are irreconcilable. Four suspects are immediately obvious: the woman Fletcher was blackmailing, her husband, Fletcher's nephew, and the ex-boyfriend of an actress Fletcher had an affair with. The first three are ruled out after questioning. The fourth is found dead, murdered in the exact same way as Fletcher...
!!Contains examples of:
* AssholeVictim: Fletcher is originally portrayed as a nice old guy. However, it soon turns out he's a DirtyOldMan, [[spoiler: which explains why he was killed.]]
* AsTheGoodBookSays: Glass gets on everyone's nerves by quoting the most depressing verses from the Old Testament. Neville and Hemingway have some fun by quoting it back on him.
* CoversAlwaysLie: [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/blunt_instrument.jpg This cover]]. Nothing like this scene happens in the book. (Even assuming the woman is Angela, she's such a minor character that she doesn't warrant an appearance on the cover.)
* DetectiveMole: [[spoiler:The local police constable who "found" the body, PC Glass, is the murderer, and the titular weapon was his police truncheon]].
* DrivenToSuicide: Angela killed herself by putting her head in an oven after Fletcher left her.
* FairPlayWhodunnit: ''Might'' be intentional... but if not, Heyer was probably having an off day.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: [[spoiler: Glass]] refuses to look at a photo of Angela and makes a gloomy prediction about her coming to a bad end. Other characters comment several times on his sanity or lack thereof.
* TheFundamentalist: Constable Glass, to his superiors' annoyance. [[spoiler: And to a murderous extent.]]
* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: One early chapter includes some of the suspects thinking about how to get some [=IOUs=] out of a safe. Failing completely, they immediately {{lampshade}} the situation by pointing out how much easier it would be if they were all characters in a detective novel.
* NeverOneMurder: Everyone is trying to make sense of Fletcher's murder and its apparently-impossible timing. The police visit a suspected blackmailer who may have been at the scene of the crime, and find he's been murdered in the same way as Fletcher.
* PosthumousCharacter: Angela's photo is found among Fletcher's belongings. Angela herself died before the book starts.
* RepetitiveName: Angela Angel. Justified since it was a stage name. Her real name was the non-repetitive [[spoiler: Rachel Glass]].
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