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* {{Expy}}: Inverted. Swami Premanathanand, the Hindu holy man who acts as the main detective in ''Mourning Raga'' and ''Death to the Landlords'', with Dominic as his sidekick, is blatantly a prototype for Peters's later hugely successful character Literature/BrotherCadfael.
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* ExtremelyColdCase: In ''A Nice Derangement of Epitaphs'', George is invited to attend the opening of a historic tomb in the town where the family is holidaying. It's discovered that the tomb's occupant was apparently buried alive, and figuring out the truth about her death becomes the B-plot to the more recent violent death that's the main mystery.
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''Death and The Joyful Woman'' won an Edgar Award and was adapted into an episode of ''TheAlfredHitchcockHour'', with Frank Overton as George Felse.
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''Death and The Joyful Woman'' won an Edgar Award and was adapted into an episode of ''TheAlfredHitchcockHour'', ''Series/TheAlfredHitchcockHour'', with Frank Overton as George Felse.
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* AssholeVictim:
** Helmut Schauffler in ''Fallen Into the Pit''. One of the police at the crime scene, asked to suggest someone who might want him dead, names seven without needing to think hard, and George notes that he could have done the same without any overlap of names.
** Arthur Rainbow, in ''Rainbow's End'', is a classic example of the type, managing to get on the wrong side of just about everyone before meeting his end.
** Helmut Schauffler in ''Fallen Into the Pit''. One of the police at the crime scene, asked to suggest someone who might want him dead, names seven without needing to think hard, and George notes that he could have done the same without any overlap of names.
** Arthur Rainbow, in ''Rainbow's End'', is a classic example of the type, managing to get on the wrong side of just about everyone before meeting his end.
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* WhoMurderedTheAsshole:
** Helmut Schauffler in ''Fallen Into the Pit''. One of the police at the crime scene, asked to suggest someone who might want him dead, names seven without needing to think hard, and George notes that he could have done the same without any overlap of names.
** Arthur Rainbow, in ''Rainbow's End'', is a classic example of the type, managing to get on the wrong side of just about everyone before meeting his end.
** Helmut Schauffler in ''Fallen Into the Pit''. One of the police at the crime scene, asked to suggest someone who might want him dead, names seven without needing to think hard, and George notes that he could have done the same without any overlap of names.
** Arthur Rainbow, in ''Rainbow's End'', is a classic example of the type, managing to get on the wrong side of just about everyone before meeting his end.
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** "the house of green turf" is from "Wo die schönen Trompeten blasen", a song by GustavMahler.
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* NotWhatItLooksLike: ''Black is the Colour of my True Love's Heart'' features a non-comedic instance that's the key to the murder.
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* NotWhatItLooksLike: MistakenForRomance: In ''Black is the Colour of my True Love's Heart'' features a non-comedic instance that's Heart'', several people notice the key to covert signs of affection between Lucien Galt and a married woman and draw the murder.wrong conclusion. [[spoiler:She's his mother, who gave him up for adoption when he was an infant and she was an unwed teen; they've only recently been reunited, and she doesn't want to be public about it until she's had a chance to explain to her husband.]]
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* ActualPacifist: Swami Premanathanand.
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* ActualPacifist: Swami Premanathanand.Premanathanand will not offer violence to any person, even to the extent of attempting to forcibly disarm a person who is about to commit a murder. (This doesn't mean he won't attempt to prevent the murder, just that he'll be more lateral about how he does it.)
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** Tamsin in ''A Nice Derangement of Epitaphs'', while exploring a tunnel:
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** "a nice derangement of epitaphs" is from ''Theatre/TheRivals'', the TropeCodifier for TheMalaproper.
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* TemptingFate: Tamsin ''A Nice Derangement of Epitaphs'', while exploring a tunnel:
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-->"It's so straightforward here," said Tamsin, stepping out merrily in the lead, "you hardly need a light." And promptly on the word she tripped over a stone that tilted treacherously out of the sandy floor, and went down with a squeak of protest on hands and knees.
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* TemptingFate: TemptingFate:
** Tamsin ''A Nice Derangement of Epitaphs'', while exploring a tunnel:
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** At the beginning of ''The Knocker on Death's Door'', George has a conversation with a local plod from a remote corner of the county, in which they remark that there's never any crime to interest George in that neck of the woods. Heavily lampshaded by the narrator.
** Tamsin ''A Nice Derangement of Epitaphs'', while exploring a tunnel:
** At the beginning of ''The Knocker on Death's Door'', George has a conversation with a local plod from a remote corner of the county, in which they remark that there's never any crime to interest George in that neck of the woods. Heavily lampshaded by the narrator.
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* DrivenToSuicide: In ''Flight of a Witch'', [[spoiler:the murderer, when caught, turns his weapon on himself]].
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* DrivenToSuicide: DrivenToSuicide:
** In ''Flight of a Witch'', [[spoiler:the murderer, when caught, turns his weapon on himself]].
** In ''The Knocker on Death's Door'', [[spoiler:the murderer, when caught, turns his weapon on himself]].
** In ''Flight of a Witch'', [[spoiler:the murderer, when caught, turns his weapon on himself]].
** In ''The Knocker on Death's Door'', [[spoiler:the murderer, when caught, turns his weapon on himself]].
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* ImpoverishedPatrician: The Macsen-Martel family in ''The Knocker on Death's Door''.
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* ParentalMarriageVeto: In ''The Knocker on Death's Door'', a woman who is dating the younger son of an ImpoverishedPatrician family is invited to afternoon tea by his elder brother, who attempts to warn her off. She's affronted, and amused, that people still behave like that. [[spoiler:It turns out that he was actually trying to get her clear of the family because he'd found out his younger brother was the murderer.]]
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* VomitingCop: One of the constables at the uncovering of the second corpse in ''The Knocker on Death's Door''.
* WorkingTheSameCase: The murder Bunty stumbles on in ''The Grass Widow's Tale'' turns out to be linked to the investigation George is working on.
* WorkingTheSameCase: The murder Bunty stumbles on in ''The Grass Widow's Tale'' turns out to be linked to the investigation George is working on.
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A detective novel series by EllisPeters Creator/EllisPeters that ran for 13 novels, 1951-1978. The series has a contemporary setting, with policeman George Felse and his son Dominic sharing the limelight; which one gets how much of the limelight varies from novel to novel. Over the course of the series, George rises from a village bobby to a Superintendent of CID and Dominic grows from a small boy to a self-assured young man.
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** "the house of green turf" is from "Wo die schönen Trompeten blasen", a song by Gustav Mahler.
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* AllMusicalsAreAdaptations: In ''Mourning Raga'', Tossa's actress mother is starring in a musical film adaptation of ''Literature/SenseAndSensibility''.
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* HappilyMarried: George and Bunty Felse.
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# ''The Grass Widow's Tale'' (1968, "Sergeant Felse Investigates")Investigates"[[note]]An odd slip by whoever chose the subtitles, this. Granted George's rank is not explicitly mentioned at any point, the internal evidence is quite clear that it belongs in the same place chronologically as in publishing order, in the Detective Inspector period.[[/note]])
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* CallBack: In ''Black Is the Colour of My True Love's Heart'', there's a clue whose significance Dominic recognises because of something he learned during the holiday depicted in ''The Piper on the Mountain''.
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* ContinuityNod: In ''The Grass Widow's Tale'', George stops in at a garage/petrol station he visited as part of the investigation in ''Flight of a Witch'', and reflects on how things have changed in the intervening years.
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* ADayInTheLimelight: Bunty Felse, George's wife, gets hers in ''The Grass Widow's Tale'', in which she stumbles across a dead body while George is out of town on an investigation.
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* SingleMindedTwins: The Rossignol twins in ''Black Is the Colour of My True Love's Heart'' are never seen apart and act like two halves of a single person. Justified that their single-mindedness is not inherent, but an affectation they've adopted for effect (they're a musical double-act), and there's a scene where they drop it when nobody's looking (though even then the narrator doesn't name them individually).
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* ChekhovsGun: If, as in ''The Piper on the Mountain'', somebody points out a rock-covered mountainside and mentions how easy it would be for an incautious climber to bring the whole lot down on top of himself, you can be sure there's a landslide in the near future.
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* ChekhovsGun: ChekhovsGun:
** If, as in ''The Piper on the Mountain'', somebody points out a rock-covered mountainside and mentions how easy it would be for an incautious climber to bring the whole lot down on top of himself, you can be sure there's a landslide in the nearfuture.future.
** The stately home in which ''Black Is the Colour of My True Love's Heart'' is set had a previous owner who collected exotic weapons as a way of seeming more mysterious and glamourous than he really was. During a tour of the house early in the book, particular attention is drawn to the SwordCane.
** If, as in ''The Piper on the Mountain'', somebody points out a rock-covered mountainside and mentions how easy it would be for an incautious climber to bring the whole lot down on top of himself, you can be sure there's a landslide in the near
** The stately home in which ''Black Is the Colour of My True Love's Heart'' is set had a previous owner who collected exotic weapons as a way of seeming more mysterious and glamourous than he really was. During a tour of the house early in the book, particular attention is drawn to the SwordCane.
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* SwordCane: One plays a role in ''Black Is the Colour of My True Love's Heart''.
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* YearOutsideHourInside: The away-with-the-fairies version is discussed in ''Flight of a Witch'', which revolves around a hill with a legend of that kind associated with it, and modern young woman who goes up the hill one evening and comes down again four days later professing to believe it's still the same night.
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* BaitAndSwitchGunshot: At the climax of ''The Piper on the Mountain'', Dominic is forced to watch helplessly as the murderer maneuvres into position to kill the title character. A shot rings out...
* ChekhovsGun: If, as in ''The Piper on the Mountain'', somebody points out a rock-covered mountainside and mentions how easy it would be for an incautious climber to bring the whole lot down on top of himself, you can be sure there's a landslide in the near future.
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* HaveYouToldAnyoneElse: Invoked by Dominic when he's BluffingTheMurderer by claiming to have found new evidence; he's careful to mention that he hasn't told anyone else yet.
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* HaveYouToldAnyoneElse: HaveYouToldAnyoneElse:
** Invoked by Dominic when he's BluffingTheMurderer by claiming to have found new evidence; he's careful to mention that he hasn't told anyone elseyet.yet.
** Used by the murderer in ''The Piper on the Mountain''.
** Invoked by Dominic when he's BluffingTheMurderer by claiming to have found new evidence; he's careful to mention that he hasn't told anyone else
** Used by the murderer in ''The Piper on the Mountain''.
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* EurekaMoment: In ''A Nice Derangement of Epitaphs'', Simon has a eureka moment concerning [[spoiler:the disappearance of Jan Treverra]] after a George repeats a comment of Dominic's. Played with a bit in that Simon was actually present when Dominic said it the first time, but didn't realise its significance because he didn't have enough of the other pieces of the puzzle then.
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* EurekaMoment: In ''A Nice Derangement of Epitaphs'', Simon has a eureka moment concerning [[spoiler:the disappearance of Jan Treverra]] after a George repeats a comment of Dominic's. Played with a bit in that Simon was actually present when Dominic said it the first time, but didn't realise its significance because he didn't have enough of the other pieces of the puzzle then.
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* {{Barsetshire}}: The setting of many of the novels is Midshire, a fictional county in the West Midlands that includes the Felses' home town of Comerford.
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* BusmansHoliday: In ''A Nice Derangement of Epitaphs'', the Felse family's seaside holiday puts George on the spot when a murder is discovered.
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* DrivenToSuicide: In ''Flight of a Witch'', [[spoiler:the murderer, when caught, turns his weapon on himself]].
* EurekaMoment: In ''A Nice Derangement of Epitaphs'', Simon has a eureka moment concerning [[spoiler:the disappearance of Jan Treverra]] after a George repeats a comment of Dominic's. Played with a bit in that Simon was actually present when Dominic said it the first time, but didn't realise its significance because he didn't have enough of the other pieces of the puzzle then.
* EurekaMoment: In ''A Nice Derangement of Epitaphs'', Simon has a eureka moment concerning [[spoiler:the disappearance of Jan Treverra]] after a George repeats a comment of Dominic's. Played with a bit in that Simon was actually present when Dominic said it the first time, but didn't realise its significance because he didn't have enough of the other pieces of the puzzle then.
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* TheGlassesGottaGo: Invoked by Philippa in ''A Nice Derangement of Epitaphs''; she says of librarian Tamsin that "when she takes off her glasses she isn't bad-looking". She's kidding: Tamsin is undeniably good-looking, and doesn't wear glasses.
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* TemptingFate: Tamsin ''A Nice Derangement of Epitaphs'', while exploring a tunnel:
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* BookEnds: ''Death and The Joyful Woman'' both begins and ends with something significant happening to Dominic on his way home from his weekly piano lessons.
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A detective novel series by EllisPeters that ran for 13 novels, 1951-1978. The series has a contemporary setting, with policeman George Felse and his son Dominic sharing the limelight; which one gets how much of the limelight varies from novel to novel. Unlike some series, time passes as in the real world; over Over the course of the series, George rises from a village bobby to a Superintendent of CID and Dominic grows from a small boy to a self-assured young man.
* BluffingTheMurderer:
** In ''Fallen Into the Pit'', Dominic, having figured out who the murderer is, but without any proof, tries to provoke the murderer into doing something incriminating by telling him he's found something that might be evidence.
** Dominic does it again, with suitable variations, in ''Death and The Joyful Woman''.%%This time he very nearly gets killed, and it turns out that George was on to the murderer anyway and would have been able to gather enough evidence without risking anybody's life, so I hope it will turn out he's learned his lesson.
* ComicBookTime: The first book is explicitly set in 1949. After that, they're not specific, but the background setting details keep pace with passing time, while the recurring characters age a year or two from book to book, even when the gap between books is larger. This is particularly noticeable with the second book, which was published a decade after the first, and includes a plot point that sets it no earlier than 1957, but George and Dominic have aged only two years.
** In ''Fallen Into the Pit'', Dominic, having figured out who the murderer is, but without any proof, tries to provoke the murderer into doing something incriminating by telling him he's found something that might be evidence.
** Dominic does it again, with suitable variations, in ''Death and The Joyful Woman''.%%This time he very nearly gets killed, and it turns out that George was on to the murderer anyway and would have been able to gather enough evidence without risking anybody's life, so I hope it will turn out he's learned his lesson.
* ComicBookTime: The first book is explicitly set in 1949. After that, they're not specific, but the background setting details keep pace with passing time, while the recurring characters age a year or two from book to book, even when the gap between books is larger. This is particularly noticeable with the second book, which was published a decade after the first, and includes a plot point that sets it no earlier than 1957, but George and Dominic have aged only two years.
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* FirstLove: Dominic Felse, aged 14, falls hard for Kitty Norris in ''Death and The Joyful Woman''; they don't end up together, but they part amicably having both gained from their interactions.
* FriendOnTheForce: George Felse isDominic'sDominic's.
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* HaveYouToldAnyoneElse: Invoked by Dominic in ''Fallen Into the Pit''; having figured out who the murderer is, but without any proof, he tries to provoke the murderer into doing something incriminating by telling him he's found something that might be evidence, but that he hasn't told anybody else yet in case it's nothing.
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* GrievousBottleyHarm: In ''Death and The Joyful Woman'', Alfred Armiger is done to death with the (full, unopened) magnum of champagne with which he was about to celebrate his latest triumph.
* HaveYouToldAnyoneElse: Invoked by Dominicin ''Fallen Into the Pit''; having figured out who the murderer is, but without any proof, he tries to provoke the murderer into doing something incriminating by telling him when he's BluffingTheMurderer by claiming to have found something that might be evidence, but new evidence; he's careful to mention that he hasn't told anybody anyone else yet yet.
* IHaveNoSon: Alfred Armiger pulls this on his son Leslie incase it's nothing.''Death and The Joyful Woman'', after Leslie decides he'd rather be an artist than continue the family business, and refuses to go along with an arranged marriage. Armiger Sr being the AssholeVictim, this is not the version of the trope where they reconcile in the end.
* ImpededMessenger: In ''Death and The Joyful Woman'', Dominic sets out after the murderer, leaving a message for his father with the intention that it will bring George after him in time to rescue him if he gets in trouble, but not soon enough to forbid him going in the first place. An unexpected circumstance delays the delivery of the message, and Dominic very nearly gets himself killed.
* INeverSaidItWasPoison: Played with in ''Death and The Joyful Woman''. Kitty confides in Dominic that she intends to confess to the murder; seeking to dissuade her, he tells her exactly why she couldn't have done it, because her story fits the vague description of the murder the police have made public, but not the reserved details he knows of through George. Too late, he realises he'd have done better to keep quiet: if she'd tried to confess, the police would have known she was innocent by the same reasoning, but now she actually knows details the police haven't made public, she's in danger of making the police think she's guilty. Which is exactly what happens.
* HaveYouToldAnyoneElse: Invoked by Dominic
* IHaveNoSon: Alfred Armiger pulls this on his son Leslie in
* ImpededMessenger: In ''Death and The Joyful Woman'', Dominic sets out after the murderer, leaving a message for his father with the intention that it will bring George after him in time to rescue him if he gets in trouble, but not soon enough to forbid him going in the first place. An unexpected circumstance delays the delivery of the message, and Dominic very nearly gets himself killed.
* INeverSaidItWasPoison: Played with in ''Death and The Joyful Woman''. Kitty confides in Dominic that she intends to confess to the murder; seeking to dissuade her, he tells her exactly why she couldn't have done it, because her story fits the vague description of the murder the police have made public, but not the reserved details he knows of through George. Too late, he realises he'd have done better to keep quiet: if she'd tried to confess, the police would have known she was innocent by the same reasoning, but now she actually knows details the police haven't made public, she's in danger of making the police think she's guilty. Which is exactly what happens.
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* ObliviousToLove: In ''Death and The Joyful Woman'', Leslie Armiger doesn't realise his UnluckyChildhoodFriend Kitty Norris has more-than-friendly feelings toward him, and she's too wrapped up in her own trouble to realise she's become Dominic Felse's FirstLove. Kitty and Dominic each end up moving on and finding happiness with other people.
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* AssholeVictim: Arthur Rainbow, in ''Rainbow's End'', is a classic example of the type, managing to get on the wrong side of just about everyone before meeting his end.
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** Helmut Schauffler in ''Fallen Into the Pit''. One of the police at the crime scene, asked to suggest someone who might want him dead, names seven without needing to think hard, and George notes that he could have done the same without any overlap of names.
** Arthur Rainbow, in ''Rainbow's End'', is a classic example of the type, managing to get on the wrong side of just about everyone before meeting hisend.end.
* CorporalPunishment: ''Fallen Into the Pit'' is set in a time when corporal punishment was still a common occurrence in English schools. Part of the establishment of Chad Wedderburn's character is that he's only resorted to using it once during his time as a teacher, the circumstances of which are described in detail.
** Helmut Schauffler in ''Fallen Into the Pit''. One of the police at the crime scene, asked to suggest someone who might want him dead, names seven without needing to think hard, and George notes that he could have done the same without any overlap of names.
** Arthur Rainbow, in ''Rainbow's End'', is a classic example of the type, managing to get on the wrong side of just about everyone before meeting his
* CorporalPunishment: ''Fallen Into the Pit'' is set in a time when corporal punishment was still a common occurrence in English schools. Part of the establishment of Chad Wedderburn's character is that he's only resorted to using it once during his time as a teacher, the circumstances of which are described in detail.
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* GoodSmokingEvilSmoking: George Felse likes to smoke a pipe when winding down after a hard day's work.
* HaveYouToldAnyoneElse: Invoked by Dominic in ''Fallen Into the Pit''; having figured out who the murderer is, but without any proof, he tries to provoke the murderer into doing something incriminating by telling him he's found something that might be evidence, but that he hasn't told anybody else yet in case it's nothing.
* InsecureLoveInterest: Chad Wedderburn in ''Fallen Into the Pit''. It's a romantic subplot in an Ellis Peters novel, so it works out all right in the end.
* IronicNickname: "Pussy" Hart in ''Fallen Into the Pit''. Her real name is Catherine, abbreviated to "Cat", and thence to "Pussy". It's stated that the nickname has stuck specifically because it doesn't suit her; if she's a cat, it's not any kind that people would call "pussy".
* LiteraryAllusionTitle:
** "fallen into the pit" is from [[TheBible Psalm 9]].
** "a nice derangement of epitaphs" is from ''Theatre/TheRivals'', the TropeCodifier for TheMalaproper.
* HaveYouToldAnyoneElse: Invoked by Dominic in ''Fallen Into the Pit''; having figured out who the murderer is, but without any proof, he tries to provoke the murderer into doing something incriminating by telling him he's found something that might be evidence, but that he hasn't told anybody else yet in case it's nothing.
* InsecureLoveInterest: Chad Wedderburn in ''Fallen Into the Pit''. It's a romantic subplot in an Ellis Peters novel, so it works out all right in the end.
* IronicNickname: "Pussy" Hart in ''Fallen Into the Pit''. Her real name is Catherine, abbreviated to "Cat", and thence to "Pussy". It's stated that the nickname has stuck specifically because it doesn't suit her; if she's a cat, it's not any kind that people would call "pussy".
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** "fallen into the pit" is from [[TheBible Psalm 9]].
** "a nice derangement of epitaphs" is from ''Theatre/TheRivals'', the TropeCodifier for TheMalaproper.
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* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Several of Dominic's schoolmates in ''Fallen Into the Pit'', including "Rabbit" Warren, whose real first name is not revealed, and "Pussy" Hart, whose real name is mentioned exactly once by the narrator and never used by any of the characters.
* ShellShockedVeteran: Chad Wedderburn in ''Fallen Into the Pit'' is the withdrawn loner type. Whether he's also the type that's retained an aptitude for killing is a question that gets a lot of attention after the first body shows up.
* ShellShockedVeteran: Chad Wedderburn in ''Fallen Into the Pit'' is the withdrawn loner type. Whether he's also the type that's retained an aptitude for killing is a question that gets a lot of attention after the first body shows up.
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* OnlyAFleshWound: Averted in ''The Knocker on Death's Door''. One character is shot through the shoulder in the final showdown with the murderer. He is rushed to hospital, and one of the surgeons spends most of the night getting the bullet "out of the wreckage of his left shoulder". He's expected to be in hospital (and later, physical therapy) for months afterward, but to make at least an 80 percent recovery eventually.
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A detective novel series by EllisPeters that ran for 13 novels, 1951-1978. The series has a contemporary setting, with policeman George Felse and his son Dominic sharing the limelight; which one gets how much of the limelight varies from novel to novel. Unlike some series, time passes as in the real world; over the course of the series, George rises from a village bobby to a Superintendent of CID and Dominic grows from a small boy to a self-assured young man.
The series has no official overall title; the title used here comes from the novels, in some editions, being subtitled "Sergeant Felse Investigates", "Detective Inspector Felse Investigates", "Detective Chief Inspector Felse Investigates", "Superintendent George Felse Investigates", or "Dominic Felse Investigates", as appropriate.
# ''Fallen into the Pit'' (1951, "Sergeant Felse Investigates")
# ''Death and The Joyful Woman'' (1961, "Sergeant Felse Investigates")
# ''Flight of a Witch'' (1964, "George Felse Investigates")
# ''A Nice Derangement of Epitaphs'' (1965, "Detective Inspector Felse Investigates")
# ''The Piper on the Mountain'' (1966, "Dominic Felse Investigates")
# ''Black Is the Colour of my True-Love's Heart'' (1967, "Detective Inspector Felse Investigates")
# ''The Grass Widow's Tale'' (1968, "Sergeant Felse Investigates")
# ''The House of Green Turf'' (1969, "Inspector Felse Investigates")
# ''Mourning Raga'' (1969, "Dominic Felse Investigates")
# ''The Knocker on Death's Door'' (1970, "Detective Chief Inspector Felse Investigates")
# ''Death to the Landlords!'' (1972, "Dominic Felse Investigates")
# ''City of Gold and Shadows'' (1973, "Detective Chief Inspector Felse Investigates")
# ''Rainbow's End'' (1978, "Superintendent George Felse Investigates")
''Death and The Joyful Woman'' won an Edgar Award and was adapted into an episode of ''TheAlfredHitchcockHour'', with Frank Overton as George Felse.
!!This series provides examples of:
* AmateurSleuth: Dominic Felse
* AssholeVictim: Arthur Rainbow, in ''Rainbow's End'', is a classic example of the type, managing to get on the wrong side of just about everyone before meeting his end.
* FriendOnTheForce: George Felse is Dominic's
* NotWhatItLooksLike: ''Black is the Colour of my True Love's Heart'' features a non-comedic instance that's the key to the murder.
* TakingTheHeat: In ''Black is the Colour of my True Love's Heart''.
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The series has no official overall title; the title used here comes from the novels, in some editions, being subtitled "Sergeant Felse Investigates", "Detective Inspector Felse Investigates", "Detective Chief Inspector Felse Investigates", "Superintendent George Felse Investigates", or "Dominic Felse Investigates", as appropriate.
# ''Fallen into the Pit'' (1951, "Sergeant Felse Investigates")
# ''Death and The Joyful Woman'' (1961, "Sergeant Felse Investigates")
# ''Flight of a Witch'' (1964, "George Felse Investigates")
# ''A Nice Derangement of Epitaphs'' (1965, "Detective Inspector Felse Investigates")
# ''The Piper on the Mountain'' (1966, "Dominic Felse Investigates")
# ''Black Is the Colour of my True-Love's Heart'' (1967, "Detective Inspector Felse Investigates")
# ''The Grass Widow's Tale'' (1968, "Sergeant Felse Investigates")
# ''The House of Green Turf'' (1969, "Inspector Felse Investigates")
# ''Mourning Raga'' (1969, "Dominic Felse Investigates")
# ''The Knocker on Death's Door'' (1970, "Detective Chief Inspector Felse Investigates")
# ''Death to the Landlords!'' (1972, "Dominic Felse Investigates")
# ''City of Gold and Shadows'' (1973, "Detective Chief Inspector Felse Investigates")
# ''Rainbow's End'' (1978, "Superintendent George Felse Investigates")
''Death and The Joyful Woman'' won an Edgar Award and was adapted into an episode of ''TheAlfredHitchcockHour'', with Frank Overton as George Felse.
!!This series provides examples of:
* AmateurSleuth: Dominic Felse
* AssholeVictim: Arthur Rainbow, in ''Rainbow's End'', is a classic example of the type, managing to get on the wrong side of just about everyone before meeting his end.
* FriendOnTheForce: George Felse is Dominic's
* NotWhatItLooksLike: ''Black is the Colour of my True Love's Heart'' features a non-comedic instance that's the key to the murder.
* TakingTheHeat: In ''Black is the Colour of my True Love's Heart''.
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