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* BombThrowingAnarchist: The agitator Yevgeny Yefimovitch supposedly supports the working class but is actually a Tzeentch cultist.
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* BombThrowingAnarchist: The agitator Yevgeny Yefimovitch supposedly supports the working class but is actually a Tzeentch cultist. Given Tzeentch is the Chaos God of Change, a bit of class-war fuelled revolution is probably right up their alley - but with Yevgeny and his hand-selected pawns in charge of it, the chances that said revolution would end up improving anything for the poor of the Empire are effectively zero.
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* GenreMashup: It mixes a SerialKiller {{Thriller}} with {{Fantasy}}.
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* MixAndMatch: A serial killer thriller set in a fantasy universe.
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* AssInAmbassador: The Cathay ambassador Dien Ch'ing is a nasty piece of work. However, he isn't really the ambassador, but a Cathayan Tzeentch cultist who [[KillAndReplace murdered and impersonated him]].
** The Brettonian ambassador, the dwarven Compte De La Rougerie, has been deliberately selected as a none-too-subtle joke/insult against the Emperor, but fortunately for the Compte, no-one who's figured it out has thus far had the nerve to explain the joke to his Imperial Majesty. It all gets a lot less funny when the comically lecherous dwarf starts looking like a possible candidate for the Beast.
** The Brettonian ambassador, the dwarven Compte De La Rougerie, has been deliberately selected as a none-too-subtle joke/insult against the Emperor, but fortunately for the Compte, no-one who's figured it out has thus far had the nerve to explain the joke to his Imperial Majesty. It all gets a lot less funny when the comically lecherous dwarf starts looking like a possible candidate for the Beast.
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* AssInAmbassador: AssInAmbassador:
** The Cathay ambassador Dien Ch'ing is a nasty piece of work. However, he isn't really the ambassador, but a Cathayan Tzeentch cultist who [[KillAndReplace murdered and impersonated him]].
** The Brettonian ambassador, the dwarven Compte De La Rougerie, has been deliberately selected as a none-too-subtle joke/insult against the Emperor,but but, fortunately for the Compte, no-one who's figured it out has thus far had the nerve to explain the joke to his Imperial Majesty. It all gets a lot less funny when the comically lecherous dwarf starts looking like a possible candidate for the Beast.
** The Cathay ambassador Dien Ch'ing is a nasty piece of work. However, he isn't really the ambassador, but a Cathayan Tzeentch cultist who [[KillAndReplace murdered and impersonated him]].
** The Brettonian ambassador, the dwarven Compte De La Rougerie, has been deliberately selected as a none-too-subtle joke/insult against the Emperor,
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* CalculatorSpelling: Inverted. [[spoiler:Elsaesser tries to write the name of his killer, but it's initially mistaken for a number code due to being read upside-down.]]
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* SixIsNine: [[spoiler:Elsaesser tries to write the name of his killer, but it's initially mistaken for a number code due to being read upside-down.]]
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* AssassinOutclassin: A DirtyCop tries to kill Kleindest. He fails, with an autopsy noting a crushed windpipe as the cause of death. The ''thirty-six'' bone fractures also inflicted on the would-be killer were merely complications.
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* TheRevolutionWillNotBeCivilised: [[spoiler:Yefimovitch]] is secretly a Tzeentch cultist but even the 'normal' revolutionaries are portrayed rather cynically. Ulrike is insane, Prince Kloszowski is a preening narccist and all of them express regret that the Beast hasn't killed more 'useful' victims than the prostitutes actually being murdered. Yefimovich even suggests they arrange such deaths to no objection from the others.
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* TheRevolutionWillNotBeCivilised: [[spoiler:Yefimovitch]] is secretly a Tzeentch cultist but even the 'normal' revolutionaries are portrayed rather cynically. Ulrike is insane, Prince Kloszowski is a preening narccist narcissist and all of them express regret that the Beast hasn't killed more 'useful' victims than the prostitutes actually being murdered. Yefimovich even suggests they arrange such deaths to no objection from the others.
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* DarkerAndEdgier: Compared with ''Drachenfels''. The earlier book itself was pretty dark but contained much more comedy and much of it's darkness was of a high fantasy/gothic horror style. This book, while still having the traditional Warhammer puns is more cynical in tone and has more grounded, 'realistic' horror. Even Genevieve and (especially) Detlef are revealed to be more traumatised by their earlier experiences than the happy ending of ''Drachenfels'' suggested.
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* FlatEarthAtheist: Rosanna doesn't believe in the gods, largely due to being a telepath around the (rather cynically portrayed) Sigmarite priesthood.
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* ContinuitySnarl: ''Literature/GotrekAndFelix'' and their adventures in ''Beastslayer'' are mentioned as contemporary events, but in that series Felix is explicitly too young to have ever met his favorite playwright Detlef in person.
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* StraightGay: Leos is initially presented as this, but [[spoiler:as a woman living as a man against their will and having a completely scrambled gender identity as a result taking male lovers may or may not count.]]
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** The Brettonian ambassador, the dwarven Compte De La Rougerie, has been deliberately selected as a subtle joke none-too-subtle joke/insult against the Emperor, but fortunately for the Compte, no-one who's figured it out has thus far had the nerve to explain the joke to his Imperial Majesty. It all gets a lot less funny when the comically lecherous dwarf starts looking like a possible candidate for the Beast.
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* FantasyCounterpartCulture: It's particularly blatant in this that the Empire is the Holy Roman Empire, Bretonnia is Middle Ages France, Kislev is Middle Ages Russia, and Cathay is Imperial China.
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* FantasyCounterpartCulture: It's particularly blatant in this that the Empire is the Holy Roman Empire, Bretonnia is Middle Ages France, Kislev is Middle Ages Russia, and Cathay is Imperial China. Not that the game manuals have been particularly subtle on those comparisons, exactly...
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** The "old Kislevite play" ''The Strange Case of Doctor Zhiekhill and Mister Chaida'', as Detlef describes it, is a blatant one to "Literature/TheStrangeCaseOfDrJekyllAndMrHyde".
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** The "old Kislevite play" ''The Strange Case of Doctor Zhiekhill and Mister Chaida'', as Detlef describes it, is a blatant one to "Literature/TheStrangeCaseOfDrJekyllAndMrHyde". That ends up being a CallForward, as Detlef Sierck ends up staging the play in another of Newman's stories.
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** The Brettonian ambassador, the dwarven Compte De La Rougerie, has been deliberately selected as a subtle joke against the Emperor, but fortunately for the Compte, no-one who's figured it out has thus far had the nerve to explain the joke to his Imperial Majesty. It all gets a lot less funny when the comically lecherous dwarf starts looking like a possible candidate for the Beast.
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* PolicePsychic: Rosanna Ophuls is an official police psychic who uses {{Psychometry}} to help identify criminals.
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* RaisedAsTheOppositeGender: [[spoiler:The true killer, Leos, is actually a woman raised all their life as a man due to their narcisstic elder sister's jealousy. This drove them insane and caused them to develop a murderously misogynistic alternate personality.]]
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* RaisedAsTheOppositeGender: [[spoiler:The true killer, Leos, is actually a woman raised all their life as a man due to their narcisstic narcissistic elder sister's jealousy. This drove them insane and caused them to develop a murderously misogynistic alternate personality.]]
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* MurderersAreRapists: Averted. One character even directly states that in his experience lust murders of that nature are "instead of" rather than "as well as" and often motivated partly by impotence.
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* Couldn'tFindAPen: [[spoiler:Elsaesser]] writes the name of his killer in his own blood.
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* FramingTheGuiltyParty: [[spoiler:Yefimovitch ends up being officially blamed for all the Beast murders, when he actually only killed Ulrike.]]
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** "Angel of the Revolution" Ulrike is named after real-world German Red Army Faction member Ulrike Meinhoff.
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* {{Expy}}: "Filthy" Harald Kleindienst is a blatant Expy of [[Film/DirtyHarry "Dirty" Harry Callaghan]]. It's stressed in his very first scene, which has him intimidating a criminal by quietly explaining how deadly he is with his "Magnin" throwing-dagger.
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* {{Expy}}: "Filthy" Harald Kleindienst is a blatant Expy of [[Film/DirtyHarry "Dirty" Harry Callaghan]].Callahan]]. It's stressed in his very first scene, which has him intimidating a criminal by quietly explaining how deadly he is with his "Magnin" throwing-dagger.
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* ShoutOut:
** Rosanna Ophuls' surname is one to film directors Creator/MaxOphuls and his son Marcel.
** The "old Kislevite play" ''The Strange Case of Doctor Zhiekhill and Mister Chaida'', as Detlef describes it, is a blatant one to "Literature/TheStrangeCaseOfDrJekyllAndMrHyde".
* SplitPersonality: Rosanna feels immediately she is called in that the murderer is one, which is correct.
** Rosanna Ophuls' surname is one to film directors Creator/MaxOphuls and his son Marcel.
** The "old Kislevite play" ''The Strange Case of Doctor Zhiekhill and Mister Chaida'', as Detlef describes it, is a blatant one to "Literature/TheStrangeCaseOfDrJekyllAndMrHyde".
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* MandatoryUnretirement: Harald is reappointed as a watchman by Johann to investigate the Beast murders. Previously, he had been working as a security guard after being forced off the force due to a scandal when he killed an aristocrat who had been publicly chasing his escaped child SexSlave with an axe.
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* DisposableSexWorker: All the Beast's victims.
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* TeaserOnlyCharacter: The first chapter follows a dockside prostitute and robber, until she becomes the Beast's latest victim.
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* {{Giallo}}: According to WordOfGod, the novel was inspired by this genre.
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* WolverineClaws: The killer uses these as a weapon.
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* ChangingOfTheGuard: Some significant characters in this were previously minor noble characters in ''Drachenfels''.
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''Beasts in Velvet'' is the second of Creator/KimNewman's novels set in the ''Franchise/{{Warhammer}}'' universe.universe, originally published under the name "Jack Yeovil". Although they are often known as the ''Vampire Genevieve'' series, Genevieve only appears as a [[MandatoryLine minor character]] in this novel, which is entirely set in the Imperial capital of Altdorf, and centres around a SerialKiller.
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* TakeThat: The commander of the local watch is introduced as "Dickon of the Dock Watch", a nod to the idealised British cop show ''Series/DicksonOfDockGreen''. However, Dickon is corrupt, thuggish and incompetent.
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* TakeThat: The commander of the local watch is introduced as "Dickon of the Dock Watch", a nod to the idealised British cop show ''Series/DicksonOfDockGreen''.''Series/DixonOfDockGreen''. However, Dickon is corrupt, thuggish and incompetent.
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''Beasts in Velvet'' is the second of Creator/KimNewman's novels set in the ''Franchise/{{Warhammer}}'' universe. Although they are often known as the ''Vampire Genevieve'' series, Genevieve only appears as a [[MandatoryLine minor character]] in this novel, which is entirely set in the Imperial capital of Altdorf, and centres around a SerialKiller.
A bloodthirsty serial killer known as "the Beast" is prowling the poverty-stricken dock district of Altdorf on foggy nights, savagely dismembering random women. The killer ends up being hunted by three oddly-assorted characters: CowboyCop "Filthy" Harald Kleindienst, nobleman Johann von Mecklenberg, who secretly fears that the killer may be someone very close to him, and forensic psychometrist Rosanna Ophuls. Meanwhile, the forces of Chaos seek to use the fear and outrage of the populace for their own political purposes.
!!''Beasts in Velvet'' contains examples of the following tropes:
* AssInAmbassador: The Cathay ambassador Dien Ch'ing is a nasty piece of work. However, he isn't really the ambassador, but a Cathayan Tzeentch cultist who [[KillAndReplace murdered and impersonated him]].
* BadCopIncompetentCop: Most of the watch on the Docks are lazy, corrupt and brutal, with no idea how to investigate serious crime beyond grabbing a random street person and beating a confession out of them.
* BombThrowingAnarchist: The agitator Yevgeny Yefimovitch supposedly supports the working class but is actually a Tzeentch cultist.
* DirtyMindReading: As an attractive woman with telepathic powers, Rosanna is frequently squicked out by accidentally picking up on men's sexual fantasies about her.
* {{Expy}}: "Filthy" Harald Kleindienst is a blatant Expy of [[Film/DirtyHarry "Dirty" Harry Callaghan]]. It's stressed in his very first scene, which has him intimidating a criminal by quietly explaining how deadly he is with his "Magnin" throwing-dagger.
* FaintingSeer: Rosanna passes out the first time she reaches a murder scene, due to the intensity and unpleasantness of the emotional residue.
* FantasyCounterpartCulture: It's particularly blatant in this that the Empire is the Holy Roman Empire, Bretonnia is Middle Ages France, Kislev is Middle Ages Russia, and Cathay is Imperial China.
* HumansAreTheRealMonsters: Although Chaos is involved in the novel, the actual murders are the crimes of a human serial killer, whose issues are the result of entirely naturalistic family cruelty.
* MayflyDecemberRomance: The relationship between Genevieve and Detlef is running into trouble in this novel due to issues with his aging and her immortality.
* NeverTheObviousSuspect: [[spoiler:Throughout the novel, Johann's unstable brother Wolf is struggling with an animalistic Chaos taint, and Johann himself fears strongly that he is the murderer. It's actually someone else.]]
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: The Beast is a blatant rewrite of the UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper murders -- the solution depicted in this novel has actually been raised by a couple of true-crime writers, although few found it likely.
* Psychic Powers: Rosanna has {{Psychometry}} and TouchTelepathy.
* RaisedAsTheOppositeGender: [[spoiler:The true killer, Leos, is actually a woman raised all their life as a man due to their narcisstic elder sister's jealousy. This drove them insane and caused them to develop a murderously misogynistic alternate personality.]]
* TakeThat: The commander of the local watch is introduced as "Dickon of the Dock Watch", a nod to the idealised British cop show ''Series/DicksonOfDockGreen''. However, Dickon is corrupt, thuggish and incompetent.
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A bloodthirsty serial killer known as "the Beast" is prowling the poverty-stricken dock district of Altdorf on foggy nights, savagely dismembering random women. The killer ends up being hunted by three oddly-assorted characters: CowboyCop "Filthy" Harald Kleindienst, nobleman Johann von Mecklenberg, who secretly fears that the killer may be someone very close to him, and forensic psychometrist Rosanna Ophuls. Meanwhile, the forces of Chaos seek to use the fear and outrage of the populace for their own political purposes.
!!''Beasts in Velvet'' contains examples of the following tropes:
* AssInAmbassador: The Cathay ambassador Dien Ch'ing is a nasty piece of work. However, he isn't really the ambassador, but a Cathayan Tzeentch cultist who [[KillAndReplace murdered and impersonated him]].
* BadCopIncompetentCop: Most of the watch on the Docks are lazy, corrupt and brutal, with no idea how to investigate serious crime beyond grabbing a random street person and beating a confession out of them.
* BombThrowingAnarchist: The agitator Yevgeny Yefimovitch supposedly supports the working class but is actually a Tzeentch cultist.
* DirtyMindReading: As an attractive woman with telepathic powers, Rosanna is frequently squicked out by accidentally picking up on men's sexual fantasies about her.
* {{Expy}}: "Filthy" Harald Kleindienst is a blatant Expy of [[Film/DirtyHarry "Dirty" Harry Callaghan]]. It's stressed in his very first scene, which has him intimidating a criminal by quietly explaining how deadly he is with his "Magnin" throwing-dagger.
* FaintingSeer: Rosanna passes out the first time she reaches a murder scene, due to the intensity and unpleasantness of the emotional residue.
* FantasyCounterpartCulture: It's particularly blatant in this that the Empire is the Holy Roman Empire, Bretonnia is Middle Ages France, Kislev is Middle Ages Russia, and Cathay is Imperial China.
* HumansAreTheRealMonsters: Although Chaos is involved in the novel, the actual murders are the crimes of a human serial killer, whose issues are the result of entirely naturalistic family cruelty.
* MayflyDecemberRomance: The relationship between Genevieve and Detlef is running into trouble in this novel due to issues with his aging and her immortality.
* NeverTheObviousSuspect: [[spoiler:Throughout the novel, Johann's unstable brother Wolf is struggling with an animalistic Chaos taint, and Johann himself fears strongly that he is the murderer. It's actually someone else.]]
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: The Beast is a blatant rewrite of the UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper murders -- the solution depicted in this novel has actually been raised by a couple of true-crime writers, although few found it likely.
* Psychic Powers: Rosanna has {{Psychometry}} and TouchTelepathy.
* RaisedAsTheOppositeGender: [[spoiler:The true killer, Leos, is actually a woman raised all their life as a man due to their narcisstic elder sister's jealousy. This drove them insane and caused them to develop a murderously misogynistic alternate personality.]]
* TakeThat: The commander of the local watch is introduced as "Dickon of the Dock Watch", a nod to the idealised British cop show ''Series/DicksonOfDockGreen''. However, Dickon is corrupt, thuggish and incompetent.
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