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It is an installment in the long-running pulp fiction mystery series about hardboiled private detective, Michael Shayne. As this one begins, Shayne, mired in grief after the death of his wife Phyllis, is packing up to leave Miami, his home of nine years. He has had enough of the detective business and is preparing to leave his career as well as the city behind when he gets a surprise visitor. Tim Rourke, his old newspaper buddy, has brought by one J.P. "Joe" Little, who is worried about his daughter Barbara. Barbara, a troubled young woman, has struggled with drugs and recently attempted suicide. She has since fled to New Orleans, where she is living under an assumed name and is still trying to pursue a career as a writer. Little is still worried, though, because he thinks from Barbara's letters that she is back on dope. She also may have fallen back under the influence of the unnamed man who got her hooked on drugs in the first place, who may have been trying to turn her into a prostitute.
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It is an installment in the long-running pulp fiction mystery series about hardboiled private detective, Michael Shayne.Literature/MichaelShayne. As this one begins, Shayne, mired in grief after the death of his wife Phyllis, is packing up to leave Miami, his home of nine years. He has had enough of the detective business and is preparing to leave his career as well as the city behind when he gets a surprise visitor. Tim Rourke, his old newspaper buddy, has brought by one J.P. "Joe" Little, who is worried about his daughter Barbara. Barbara, a troubled young woman, has struggled with drugs and recently attempted suicide. She has since fled to New Orleans, where she is living under an assumed name and is still trying to pursue a career as a writer. Little is still worried, though, because he thinks from Barbara's letters that she is back on dope. She also may have fallen back under the influence of the unnamed man who got her hooked on drugs in the first place, who may have been trying to turn her into a prostitute.
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* BluffingTheMurderer: Shayne confronts Joe Little with an identification of his fingerprints on the liquor bottle that was the murder weapon. A napnicking Little protests that he wore gloves--and the jig is up. Shayne was lying about his prints on the bottle.
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* BluffingTheMurderer: Shayne confronts Joe Little with an identification of his fingerprints on the liquor bottle that was the murder weapon. A napnicking panicking Little protests that he wore gloves--and the jig is up. Shayne was lying about his prints on the bottle.
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* PlotHole: Joe Little was certainly taking his own long chance, since the woman in New Orleans could have told Shayne that she wasn't Barbar Little, just wrecking the whole scheme.
* TheReveal: The dead woman, the woman Shayne found in New Orleans, actually was named Margo Macon. Joe Little covered up his own daughter's death, then killed Macon and offered her up as a substitute body.
* TheReveal: The dead woman, the woman Shayne found in New Orleans, actually was named Margo Macon. Joe Little covered up his own daughter's death, then killed Macon and offered her up as a substitute body.
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* PlotHole: Joe Little was certainly taking his own long chance, since the woman in New Orleans could have told Shayne that she wasn't Barbar Barbara Little, just wrecking the whole scheme.
* TheReveal: The dead woman, the woman Shayne found in New Orleans,actually was named wasn't Barbrara Little; Margo Macon.Macon was her real name. Joe Little covered up his own daughter's death, then killed Macon and offered her up as a substitute body.
* TheReveal: The dead woman, the woman Shayne found in New Orleans,
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* TheReveal: The dead woman actually was named Margo Macon. Joe Little covered up his own daughter's death, then killed Macon and offered her up as a substitute body.
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* PlotHole: Joe Little was certainly taking his own long chance, since the woman in New Orleans could have told Shayne that she wasn't Barbar Little, just wrecking the whole scheme.
* TheReveal: The dead woman, the woman Shayne found in New Orleans, actually was named Margo Macon. Joe Little covered up his own daughter's death, then killed Macon and offered her up as a substitute body.
* TheReveal: The dead woman, the woman Shayne found in New Orleans, actually was named Margo Macon. Joe Little covered up his own daughter's death, then killed Macon and offered her up as a substitute body.
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* InheritanceMurder: A variation. Joe Little's daughter Barbara has already died. But he refuses to ID the body, then kills Margo a month hater and [=IDs=] her body as Barbara, so that he can get Margo's life insurance payout.
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* InheritanceMurder: InsuranceMotivatedMurder: A variation. Joe Little's daughter Barbara has already died. But he refuses to ID the body, then kills Margo a month hater and [=IDs=] her body as Barbara, so that he can get Margo's life insurance payout.
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* BluffingTheMurderer: Shayne confronts Joe Little with an identification of his fingerprints on the liquor bottle that was the murder weapon. A napnicking Little protests that he wore gloves--and the jig is up. Shayne was lying about his prints on the bottle.
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* DramaticDrop: "Mr. Little's pince-nez fell to the floor from his trembling fingers" as he confesses.
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* HandOrObjectUnderwear: Captain Denton drugs both Shayne and Lucile, has them both stripped naked, and then pretends to arrest them in a prostitution raid. He brings a woman along to take pictures. The incriminating photo that he is holding out as blackmail against Shayne has Lucile holding her arms over her bare breasts.
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* LingerieScene: Lucile is wearing "a blue satin negligee" when she welcomes Shayne back to her apartment.
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* SummationGathering: Shayne has all the characters brought over to Inspector Quinlan's office so that Shayne can reveal the killer in classic style.
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* TitleDrop: Shayne could just do what Denton wants and leave town, and not risk arrest or social humiliation for Lucile. But he decides to "take a long chance" and execute a complicated scheme to expose the real killer.
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* CampStraight: Drake is described as "foppish", he has a "pink blush" to his cheek, and he colors his nails. When he demands to know who Shayne is Shayne says "I'm not queen of the fairies." Yet he is married, with a (dying) wife back in New York.
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* CampStraight: Drake is described as "foppish", he has a "pink blush" to his cheek, and he colors his nails. When he demands to know who Shayne is Shayne says "I'm not queen of the fairies." Yet he is married, with a (dying) wife back in New York.York, and he likes to go to strip clubs.
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* InheritanceMurder: A variation. Joe Little's daughter Barbara has already died. But he refuses to ID the body, then kills Margo a month hater and [=IDs=] her body as Barbara, so that he can get Margo's life insurance payout.
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* TheReveal: The dead woman actually was named Margo Macon. Joe Little covered up his own daughter's death, then killed Macon and offered her up as a substitute body.
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* DirtyCop: Captain Denton is a dirty cop who takes protection money from Rudy Soule, the drugs-and-whores kingpin. They have a little powwow about whether or not they should murder Shayne, before deciding against it.
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* NoodleIncident: When packing up his stuff, Shayne finds a fake kidnap note from "the Hanson case", a blackjack that he stole from Pug Myers, and a rubber hose once used to gag a woman in "the Lenham case". None of these were in actual Mike Shayne novels.
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** When packing up his stuff, Shayne finds a fake kidnap note from "the Hanson case", a blackjack that he stole from Pug Myers, and a rubber hose once used to gag a woman in "the Lenham case". None of these were in actual Mike Shaynenovels.novels.
** The narrative doesn't give the details of the sex show at the Daphne Club, only noting that it involved a stripper and a ''boy'' and that the woman was wearing nothing but heels when she left the stage.
** When packing up his stuff, Shayne finds a fake kidnap note from "the Hanson case", a blackjack that he stole from Pug Myers, and a rubber hose once used to gag a woman in "the Lenham case". None of these were in actual Mike Shayne
** The narrative doesn't give the details of the sex show at the Daphne Club, only noting that it involved a stripper and a ''boy'' and that the woman was wearing nothing but heels when she left the stage.
* SlippingAMickey: A thirsty Shayne gulps down the drink that Rudy Soule offers hin and says that he would have drank it if it were a Mickey Finn. Soule laughs and says "It was." Shayne then falls unconscious.
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* UncleTomfoolery: An unfortunate running trope in the Shayne novels. Shayne encounters a "Negro bellhop" with "buck teeth" who says stuff like "It wa'n't nothin', suh."
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* UncleTomfoolery: An unfortunate running trope in the Shayne novels. Shayne encounters a "Negro bellhop" with "buck teeth" who says stuff like "It wa'n't nothin', suh."" Later, a "Negress" maid says "Ain't no girl in heah."
* YouCanLeaveYourHatOn: Shayne and Lucile watch a nude dance show at the Daphne Club.
* ZipMeUp: A flirtatious moment when Lucile asks Shayne to button up the back of her dress and "Shayne's big fingers" struggled with the buttons.
* YouCanLeaveYourHatOn: Shayne and Lucile watch a nude dance show at the Daphne Club.
* ZipMeUp: A flirtatious moment when Lucile asks Shayne to button up the back of her dress and "Shayne's big fingers" struggled with the buttons.
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* CampStraight: Drake is described as "foppish", he has a "pink blush" to his cheek, and he colors his nails. When he demands to know who Shayne is Shayne says "I'm not queen of the fairies." Yet he is married, with a (dying) wife back in New York.
* ChekhovsGun: In their first meeting Little says that he was called to identify a suicide victim but saw that it wasn't his daughter. In fact it ''was'' his daughter and he pretended it wasn't as part of a complicated scheme to get her insurance payout.
* ChekhovsGun: In their first meeting Little says that he was called to identify a suicide victim but saw that it wasn't his daughter. In fact it ''was'' his daughter and he pretended it wasn't as part of a complicated scheme to get her insurance payout.
* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: When Shayne explains his theory that Drake killed Barbara because she wanted to leave him, Quinlan says "It sounds like a ten-cent melodrama." The Michael Shayne books were 25-cent melodramas.
* NatureAbhorsAVirgin: Lucile says she thought "Margo" was a virgin and recommended that she have an affair.
* NatureAdoresAVirgin: According to Lucile, Henri knew Margo was a virgin and "that made the chase exciting."
* NatureAbhorsAVirgin: Lucile says she thought "Margo" was a virgin and recommended that she have an affair.
* NatureAdoresAVirgin: According to Lucile, Henri knew Margo was a virgin and "that made the chase exciting."
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* UncleTomfoolery: An unfortunate running trope in the Shayne novels. Shayne encounters a "Negro bellhop" with "buck teeth" who says stuff like "It wa'n't nothin', suh."
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* FriendOnTheForce: Chief [=McCracken=], Shayne's buddy from the old days who gets him sprung from jail in this story and helpfully assembles everyone for the SummationGathering.
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* ItsAllMyFault: Shayne reels in shock when he gets back to the hotel and finds Barbara dead, when that very morning he'd promised Joe Little he'd keep her safe.
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* SinisterSwitchblade: When Shayne is outed as a detective, Henri the slimy pimp whips out a "clasp-knife." Shayne overpowers him but is then clubbed into unconsciousness by the dirty cops who are accompanying Henri.
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* BuxomBeautyStandard: The women in Michael Shayne novels were always busty and hot. Shayne admires the "full breasts" of Barbara Little, which are barely contained in her halter top.
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* NoodleIncident: When packing up his stuff, Shayne finds a fake kidnap note from "the Hanson case", a blackjack that he stole from Pug Myers, and a rubber hose once used to gag a woman in "the Lenham case". None of these were in actual Mike Shayne novels.
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* NoodleIncident: When packing up his stuff, Shayne finds a fake kidnap note from "the Hanson case", a blackjack that he stole from Pug Myers, and a rubber hose once used to gag a woman in "the Lenham case". None of these were in actual Mike Shayne novels.novels.
* SlouchOfVillainy: Henri, the sleazy pimp and drug pusher, is introduced as he "leaned against the desk" of Shayne's hotel.
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: Earlier Shayne novels had as characters Chief Will Gentry, the Miami chief who was Shayne's buddy and FriendOnTheForce, and Chief Peter Painter, the Miami Beach chief who loathed Shayne and yearns to arrest him. This book has Chief [=McCracken=], Shayne's old FriendOnTheForce from his New Orleans days, and Captain Dolph Denton, an old enemy who loathes Shayne and years to arrest him. (However, unlike Painter who was just a {{Jerkass}}, Denton is an actual DirtyCop.)
* UncleTomfoolery: An unfortunate running trope in the Shayne novels. Shayne encounters a "Negro bellhop" with "buck teeth" who says stuff like "It wa'n't nothin', suh."
* SlouchOfVillainy: Henri, the sleazy pimp and drug pusher, is introduced as he "leaned against the desk" of Shayne's hotel.
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: Earlier Shayne novels had as characters Chief Will Gentry, the Miami chief who was Shayne's buddy and FriendOnTheForce, and Chief Peter Painter, the Miami Beach chief who loathed Shayne and yearns to arrest him. This book has Chief [=McCracken=], Shayne's old FriendOnTheForce from his New Orleans days, and Captain Dolph Denton, an old enemy who loathes Shayne and years to arrest him. (However, unlike Painter who was just a {{Jerkass}}, Denton is an actual DirtyCop.)
* UncleTomfoolery: An unfortunate running trope in the Shayne novels. Shayne encounters a "Negro bellhop" with "buck teeth" who says stuff like "It wa'n't nothin', suh."
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* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Lucy Hamilton, who would become a regular character in the Michael Shayne series, is introduced as "Lucile."
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* CallingParentsByTheirName: Little tells Shayne that his daughter, in her letters, refuses to address him as her father. This actually turns out to be foreshadowing of the central twist.
* ContinuityNod: As he packs his stuff, Shayne comes across the knife used to kill Phyllis's mother in the first Michael Shayne novel, ''Literature/DividendOnDeath''.
* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Lucy Hamilton, who would become a regular character in the Michael Shayne series, is introduced as "Lucile.""
* ExtremelyShortTimespan: The formula of the Michael Shayne novels. A very busy 24 hours has Shayne take a train to New Orleans, get mixed up with gangsters and prostitution, and catch a killer.
* HookersAndBlow: Vaguely hinted at, as Little says that Barbara has been engaging in "depravities" while she is high on drugs. Shayne tracks Drake, the other man looking for Barbara, to a nightclub that is actually a whorehouse, run by a local drug kingpin.
* ItsAllJunk: Shayne contemplates all the souvenirs from his career as a private eye and decides that it's all "mere rubbish."
* NoodleIncident: When packing up his stuff, Shayne finds a fake kidnap note from "the Hanson case", a blackjack that he stole from Pug Myers, and a rubber hose once used to gag a woman in "the Lenham case". None of these were in actual Mike Shayne novels.
* ContinuityNod: As he packs his stuff, Shayne comes across the knife used to kill Phyllis's mother in the first Michael Shayne novel, ''Literature/DividendOnDeath''.
* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Lucy Hamilton, who would become a regular character in the Michael Shayne series, is introduced as "Lucile.
* ExtremelyShortTimespan: The formula of the Michael Shayne novels. A very busy 24 hours has Shayne take a train to New Orleans, get mixed up with gangsters and prostitution, and catch a killer.
* HookersAndBlow: Vaguely hinted at, as Little says that Barbara has been engaging in "depravities" while she is high on drugs. Shayne tracks Drake, the other man looking for Barbara, to a nightclub that is actually a whorehouse, run by a local drug kingpin.
* ItsAllJunk: Shayne contemplates all the souvenirs from his career as a private eye and decides that it's all "mere rubbish."
* NoodleIncident: When packing up his stuff, Shayne finds a fake kidnap note from "the Hanson case", a blackjack that he stole from Pug Myers, and a rubber hose once used to gag a woman in "the Lenham case". None of these were in actual Mike Shayne novels.
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''Michael Shayne's Long Chance'' is a 1944 novel by Brett Halliday, the pen name for Davis Dresser.
It is an installment in the long-running pulp fiction mystery series about hardboiled private detective, Michael Shayne. As this one begins, Shayne, mired in grief after the death of his wife Phyllis, is packing up to leave Miami, his home of nine years. He has had enough of the detective business and is preparing to leave his career as well as the city behind when he gets a surprise visitor. Tim Rourke, his old newspaper buddy, has brought by one J.P. "Joe" Little, who is worried about his daughter Barbara. Barbara, a troubled young woman, has struggled with drugs and recently attempted suicide. She has since fled to New Orleans, where she is living under an assumed name and is still trying to pursue a career as a writer. Little is still worried, though, because he thinks from Barbara's letters that she is back on dope. She also may have fallen back under the influence of the unnamed man who got her hooked on drugs in the first place, who may have been trying to turn her into a prostitute.
Shayne, lacking much else to do, and also because he himself lived in New Orleans before moving to Miami, takes the case. He travels to New Orleans and finds Barbara, now living under the name of Margo Macon, with little trouble. "Margo" takes a fancy to him, and suggests they go out, but first, she's expecting guests. Shayne sets out to find the dope-peddler who apparently is again in Margo's company. Some plot happens, Shayne runs into an enemy from the police department, and he gets arrested on a bogus drunk-and-disorderly charge. He gets out of jail a few hours later, makes it back to the hotel, and finds "Margo", beaten to death.
This novel introduced Lucy Hamilton, here called "Lucile" Hamilton. Lucy, the replacement for Phyllis, would be Shayne's LoveInterest, SexySecretary, and sidekick for the next 22 years of novels.
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* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Lucy Hamilton, who would become a regular character in the Michael Shayne series, is introduced as "Lucile."
It is an installment in the long-running pulp fiction mystery series about hardboiled private detective, Michael Shayne. As this one begins, Shayne, mired in grief after the death of his wife Phyllis, is packing up to leave Miami, his home of nine years. He has had enough of the detective business and is preparing to leave his career as well as the city behind when he gets a surprise visitor. Tim Rourke, his old newspaper buddy, has brought by one J.P. "Joe" Little, who is worried about his daughter Barbara. Barbara, a troubled young woman, has struggled with drugs and recently attempted suicide. She has since fled to New Orleans, where she is living under an assumed name and is still trying to pursue a career as a writer. Little is still worried, though, because he thinks from Barbara's letters that she is back on dope. She also may have fallen back under the influence of the unnamed man who got her hooked on drugs in the first place, who may have been trying to turn her into a prostitute.
Shayne, lacking much else to do, and also because he himself lived in New Orleans before moving to Miami, takes the case. He travels to New Orleans and finds Barbara, now living under the name of Margo Macon, with little trouble. "Margo" takes a fancy to him, and suggests they go out, but first, she's expecting guests. Shayne sets out to find the dope-peddler who apparently is again in Margo's company. Some plot happens, Shayne runs into an enemy from the police department, and he gets arrested on a bogus drunk-and-disorderly charge. He gets out of jail a few hours later, makes it back to the hotel, and finds "Margo", beaten to death.
This novel introduced Lucy Hamilton, here called "Lucile" Hamilton. Lucy, the replacement for Phyllis, would be Shayne's LoveInterest, SexySecretary, and sidekick for the next 22 years of novels.
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* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Lucy Hamilton, who would become a regular character in the Michael Shayne series, is introduced as "Lucile."
