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* SleightOfHandiness: Campion performs a magic trick in "The Crime at Black Dudley", making a salt cellar disappear and then appear again on the person of a servant (who's in employ of the BigBad). [[spoiler: Campion also takes the servant's gun while performing the trick.]]



* TheVicar: Swithin Cush


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* TapOnTheHead: Campion knocks several mooks unconscious in "The Crime at Black Dudley" by hitting them in the head with the butt of a pistol.


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* TheVicar: Swithin Cush
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* BlackSheep: Campion, his sister Valentine, and if they're any indication of what their family frowns upon, probably Canon Avril as well.

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* BrokenMessiah: Campion when seriously contemplating ignoring his ideals, [[spoiler: i.e. seriously contemplating pointing the authorities toward his client so he could steal the man's wife,]] even falling into a HeroicBSOD and putting on some pretty thick JadeColoredGlasses, but [[HesBack he's brought back to himself]] in the next book via LoveRedeems.



** Crops up a few times and is generally written in a contemptuous fashion so the reader doesn't sympathize with those involved. Most notably the one between Campion, his client, and his client's wife (see BrokenMessiah for how this ends up affecting Campion) in "Dancers in Mourning", and the one between Campion's sister, Amanda's boss, and an actress in "The Fashion in Shrouds" (which tends towards the PsychoticLoveTriangle end of things) against which the non-possessive and rather sweet romance of Campion and Amanda is juxtaposed.

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** Crops up a few times and is generally written in a contemptuous fashion so the reader doesn't sympathize with those involved. Most notably the one between Campion, his client, and his client's wife (see BrokenMessiah for how this ends up affecting Campion) in "Dancers in Mourning", and the one between Campion's sister, Amanda's boss, and an actress in "The Fashion in Shrouds" (which tends towards the PsychoticLoveTriangle end of things) against which the non-possessive and rather sweet romance of Campion and Amanda is juxtaposed.
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rich idiot with no day job was disambiguated by TRS.


Albert Campion is the protagonist of a series of novels by Margery Allingham; outwardly a RichIdiotWithNoDayJob but in reality a GentlemanAdventurer [[WeHelpTheHelpless who is willing to sell his skills to anyone in trouble]]. Aside from his enquiring mind and deductive abilities, his main attributes are his incredible range and depth of contacts, ranging from low class criminals up to the Chief Constables of a number of police forces and his ability to insinuate himself anywhere and get along with pretty much anybody.

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Albert Campion is the protagonist of a series of novels by Margery Allingham; outwardly a RichIdiotWithNoDayJob an UpperClassTwit but in reality a GentlemanAdventurer [[WeHelpTheHelpless who is willing to sell his skills to anyone in trouble]]. Aside from his enquiring mind and deductive abilities, his main attributes are his incredible range and depth of contacts, ranging from low class criminals up to the Chief Constables of a number of police forces and his ability to insinuate himself anywhere and get along with pretty much anybody.



* HistoricalCharactersFictionalRelative: Campion is implied but never stated to be the illegitimate son of King George V. Campion is a RichIdiotWithNoDayJob with an undisclosed source of wealth and is indicated to have some connection with the royal family. George V, like other members of the House of House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha/Windsor had Albert among his names, and Campion's real name, Rupert, also fits in with the German origin of the family.

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* HistoricalCharactersFictionalRelative: Campion is implied but never stated to be the illegitimate son of King George V. Campion is a RichIdiotWithNoDayJob an IdleRich man with an undisclosed source of wealth and is indicated to have some connection with the royal family. George V, like other members of the House of House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha/Windsor had Albert among his names, and Campion's real name, Rupert, also fits in with the German origin of the family.
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* ReplacedWithReplica: One of Campion's plans to protect the Gyrth Chalice in "Look to the Lady" is to create a replica to draw the bad guys' efforts away from the real Chalice. When he takes the Chalice to a specialist to make the replica, the specialist explains that what Campion has is already a replica -- one made for the same purpose by an ancestor of his.
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** Subverted in that same story with the creature of Pharisee's Clearing.

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** Subverted in that same story with the creature of Pharisee's Clearing.Clearing, which proves to be a ScoobyDooHoax.
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* BikerBabe: Doll Jensen in "Cargo of Eagles", ringleader of a biker gang who embodies the Sixties' rebelliousness and sexual freedom.
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* TheMatchmaker: In ''Hide My Eyes'', Polly Tassie is trying to find a nice young lady to marry her protege Gerry Hawker, and invites her niece to stay with that end in mind. She quickly thinks better of the idea for various reasons, not least when she's forced to accept that Gerry is not a LovableRogue but a serial killer.

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* SlippingAMickey: In ''The Case of the Late Pig'', the murderer tries this on Campion. [[spoiler: Fortunately, perhaps as a result of his early experiences of being UnsuspectinglySoused, Campion spots what he's trying to do and just pretends.]]

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* SlippingAMickey: SlippingAMickey:
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In ''The Case of the Late Pig'', the murderer tries this on Campion. [[spoiler: Fortunately, perhaps as a result of his early experiences of being UnsuspectinglySoused, Campion spots what he's trying to do and just pretends.]]]]
** In ''Hide My Eyes'', Hawker does this to one of his victims, with the aim of leaving them in a fatal situation that [[MakeItLookLikeAnAccident looks like an accidental death]].
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* WindsOfDestinyChange: Capt. Jack Havoc and Canon Avril are both what Havoc calls 'Watchers'

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* WindsOfDestinyChange: Capt. Jack Havoc and Canon Avril are both what Havoc calls 'Watchers''Watchers' -- he believes that they have the ability to see, or even manipulate, the flow of chance in their favour.

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* DecoyProtagonist: While still part of the Campion series, in ''The Tiger in the Smoke'' Campion and his friends are more like supporting characters, with most of the action actually revolving around the vicious murderer Jack Havoc and the effects his obsessive pursuit have on everyone.

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While still part of the Campion series, in ''The Tiger in the Smoke'' Campion and his friends are more like supporting characters, with most of the action actually revolving around the vicious murderer Jack Havoc and the effects his obsessive pursuit have on everyone. everyone.
** Likewise, ''Hide My Eyes'' is mainly focused on serial killer Jeremy Hawker, with Campion very much a peripheral figure.
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* KnifeNut: Captain Jack Havoc
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* ElderlyBlueHairedLady: Dixie Wishart, the landlady of the Angel in ''Cargo of Eagles'', has a blue rinse that gives her hair "alarming heliotrope highlights".

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* ElderlyBlueHairedLady: Dixie Wishart, the landlady of the Angel Demon inn in ''Cargo of Eagles'', has a blue rinse that gives her hair "alarming heliotrope highlights".
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* ElderlyBlueHairedLady: Dixie Wishart, the landlady of the Angel in ''Cargo of Eagles'', has a blue rinse that gives her hair "alarming heliotrope highlights".

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* SlippingTheMickey: In ''The Case of the Late Pig'', the murderer tries this on Campion. [[spoiler: Fortunately, perhaps as a result of his early experiences of being UnsuspectinglySoused, Campion spots what he's trying to do and just pretends.]]

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* SlippingTheMickey: SlippingAMickey: In ''The Case of the Late Pig'', the murderer tries this on Campion. [[spoiler: Fortunately, perhaps as a result of his early experiences of being UnsuspectinglySoused, Campion spots what he's trying to do and just pretends.]]


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* TheSpymaster: L C "Elsie" Corkran is a senior Intelligence figure in several of the novels.

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* BikerBabe: Doll Jensen in "Cargo of Eagles".

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* BikerBabe: Doll Jensen in "Cargo of Eagles".Eagles", ringleader of a biker gang who embodies the Sixties' rebelliousness and sexual freedom.


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* GhostTown: In the backstory of "Cargo of Eagles", a fraudulent Victorian property developer sold plots of land in the area known as the Trough, claiming that Eastonville, a new seaside resort, would be built on the site. Only a handful of houses were ever completed, and by the time of the story they're mostly deserted or ruinous.


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* PirateBooty: The [=McGuffin=] in "Cargo of Eagles" -- Teague robbed and ransacked a private yacht, and although some of his ill-gotten gains were found, the bulk of them have never come to light.


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* RuthlessModernPirates: Teague in "Cargo of Eagles" was arrested and tried for piracy and murder in the 1940s. At the time of the book, he's just been released from prison and disappeared.
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* BikerBabe: Doll Jensen in "Cargo of Eagles".

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