History Literature / MegLangslowMysteries

* CharacterisationMarchesOn: Most of Meg's relatives who are portrayed as bumbling wannabes who try too hard in the earlier books become actually good at their chosen jobs/hobbies in the later ones, ([[BunnyEarsLawyer even when they have their own methods]].) Most notably her mother's passion for interior decoration and her dad becoming an actual medical examiner for the police.

* CharacterisationMarchesOn: Most of Meg's relatives who are portrayed as bumbling wannabes who try too hard in the earlier books become actually good at their chosen jobs/hobbies in the later ones, ([[BunnyEarsLawyer even when they have their own methods]].) Most notably her mother's passion for interior decoration.

* ComicBookTime / WebcomicTime: precise dates and too detailed references to any current events are avoided, computers and cell phones have the capabilities they had when respective books were written, but from the ageing of the twins, only about 5 or 6 years passed in the books for almost 20 years of RealLife, while most adult and senior characters apparently didn't age at all.

* TitleDrop: With the name of the book in "Some Like It Hawk," as the name of a service that provides a hawk to chase away nuisance pigeons

* MorallyBankruptBanker: The "Evil Lender," First Progressive Financial, in ''Some Like It Hawk''. One of the darker and probably the most murderous BigBad in the series.

* CorruptCorporateExecutive: The executives of the "Evil Lender," First Progressive Financial, in ''Some Like It Hawk''

* ComicBookTime / WebcomicTime: precise dates and too detailed references to current events are avoided, computers and cell phones have the capabilities they had when respective books were written, but from the ageing of the twins, only about 5 or 6 years passed in the books for almost 20 years of RealLife, while most adult and senior characters apparently didn't age at all.

* ComicBookTime/WebcomicTime: precise dates and too detailed references to current events are avoided, computers and cell phones have the capabilities they had when respective books were written, but from the ageing of the twins, only about 5 or 6 years passed in the books for almost 20 years of RealLife, while most adult and senior characters apparently didn't age at all.

* FamedInStory: Although Meg herself is only locally famous, her brother (a video game designer,) husband (a TV actor-turned-academic who played an EnsembleDarkhorse character in a ShowWithinAShow) and Dr. Blake [[spoiler:her long-lost grandfather]] and a host of wildlife documentaries, are famous enough to have their own in-universe fandoms.

* FamedInStory: Although Meg herself is only locally famous, her brother (a video game designer,) husband (an actor who played an EnsembleDarkhorse character in the ShowWithinAShow) and Dr. Blake [[spoiler:her long-lost grandfather]] and a host of wildlife documentaries, are famous enough to have their own in-universe fandoms.

* FamedInStory: Although Meg herself is only locally famous, her brother (a video game designer,) husband (an actor who played an EnsembleDarkhorse character in the ShowWithinAShow) and Dr. Blake [[spoiler:her long-lost grandfather]] a host of wildlife documentaries, are famous enough to have their own in-universe fandoms.

* CoincidenceMagnet Meg and her relatives have an uncanny ability to turn just about anything into an over the top chaotic mess by their mere presence. Then take it in stride and sort it out (more or less.)

* TitleDrop: With the name of the book in "Some Like It Hawk," as the name of a service that provides a hawk to chase away nuisance pigeons
* WeirdnessMagnet Meg and her relatives have an uncanny ability to turn just about anything into an over the top chaotic mess by their mere presence. Then take it in stride and sort it out (more or less.)

* TitleDrop: With the name of the book in "Some Like It Hawk," as the name of a service that provides a hawk to chase away nuisance pigeons

The ''Meg Langslow Mysteries'' are a series of comedic mystery novels written by Donna Andrews. Similar to the StephaniePlum novels, each features a murder mystery with a heavy dose of humor in the story. Each also features bird-related antics, with these taking a greater role in the plot of some of the novels in the series than others.

* ''Duck the Halls'' (Fall 2013)

* JurisdictionFriction: This happens in ''Hen of the Baskervilles'' when a body ends up splayed across the county line of Caerphilly County and Clay County. Clay County is very much unequipped to do a proper investigation of the murder, but wants jurisdiction anyway. Meg and the Caerphilly County police chief manage to convince them to give Clay County to give the case to them by insinuating that the cost of the investigation will be astronomical, though Clay County still insists on having one of their people on the case as an observer, who turns out to be an interfering idiot.

* ''Some Like It Hawk'' (Released July 2012)
* ''The Hen of the Baskervilles'' (July 2013)

* PunBasedTitle

The '''Meg Langslow Mysteries''' are a series of comedic mystery novels written by Donna Andrews. Similar to the StephaniePlum novels, each features a murder mystery with a heavy dose of humor in the story. Each also features bird-related antics, with these taking a greater role in the plot of some of the novels in the series than others.

* BewareOfViciousDog: Spike - Meg Langslow's dog that her mother forces on her after she turns out to be allergic to him. He turns out to be surprisingly gentle toward and protective of Meg's children once they're born, though.

* IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming: Each book features a bird of some sort in the title; all titles after ''Murder with Puffins'' also reference a popular saying, often one which is the title of a film.