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* PetTheDog: Dudley's respectful relationship with Hideo is one of his more appealing traits.
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* PetTheDog: Dudley's respectful relationship with Hideo is one of his more appealing traits. Dudley being Dudley, it's not immediately clear how sincere he is about this respect, as he gains plenty from the relationship, but his heartbroken reaction to [[spoiler: Hideo's death]] in ''Literature/ThisStorm'' makes clear that Dudley's fondness for Hideo is completely genuine.
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''Perfidia'' is the first book of Creator/JamesEllroy's second LA Quartet. Which, yes, is a little confusing - the original Quartet, mostly written in the 80's, takes place in Los Angeles from the late 40's to 1960 (or so), and comprises ''Literature/TheBlackDahlia'', ''Literature/TheBigNowhere'', ''Literature/LAConfidential'' and ''Literature/WhiteJazz.''
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''Perfidia'' is the first book of Creator/JamesEllroy's second LA Quartet.Literature/TheLAQuartet. Which, yes, is a little confusing - the original Quartet, mostly written in the 80's, takes place in Los Angeles from the late 40's to 1960 (or so), and comprises ''Literature/TheBlackDahlia'', ''Literature/TheBigNowhere'', ''Literature/LAConfidential'' and ''Literature/WhiteJazz.''
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* PetTheDog: Dudley's respectful relationship with Hideo is one of his more appealing traits. Of course, Dudley being Dudley, there's profit in it for him, and even as a POV character he never makes it entirely clear how much of that respect is genuine and how much is self-interest.
** [[spoiler: After Hideo is killed in the sequel,]] Dudley appears to be genuinely heartbroken - and the segment where that happens is told from the perspective of someone who ''hates'' Dudley, so there's no way they'd try to make him look good.
** [[spoiler: After Hideo is killed in the sequel,]] Dudley appears to be genuinely heartbroken - and the segment where that happens is told from the perspective of someone who ''hates'' Dudley, so there's no way they'd try to make him look good.
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* PetTheDog: Dudley's respectful relationship with Hideo is one of his more appealing traits. Of course, Dudley being Dudley, there's profit in it for him, and even as a POV character he never makes it entirely clear how much of that respect is genuine and how much is self-interest.\n** [[spoiler: After Hideo is killed in the sequel,]] Dudley appears to be genuinely heartbroken - and the segment where that happens is told from the perspective of someone who ''hates'' Dudley, so there's no way they'd try to make him look good.
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** [[spoiler: After Hideo is killed in the sequel,]] Dudley appears to be genuinely heartbroken - and the segment where that happens is told from the perspective of someone who ''hates'' Dudley, so there's no way they'd try to make him look good.
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* BadassDecay: Dudley Smith is far from the unflappable, CrazyPrepared MagnificentBastard he was in the first L. A. Quartet; granted, these books are set much earlier so he might [[TookALevelInBadass grow into it yet.]]
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* BadassDecay: Dudley Smith is far from the unflappable, CrazyPrepared MagnificentBastard he was in the first L. A. Quartet; granted, these books are set much earlier so he might [[TookALevelInBadass grow into it yet.]]
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* {{Gayngst}}: Hideo spends much of the book tormenting himself over his sexuality.
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* FamilyMan: Dudley pretends to be one of these, what with his wife and four daughters. Except he almost never sees them (and the readers literally never do) and at one point he admits that he forgets his kids' names.
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* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Preston Exley shows up, and is no less corrupt than he was in ''Literature/LAConfidetial''. He pitches an elaborate plan to profit off the internment of Japanese-Americans (Bill Parker manages to kill it) and his real estate scheme plays a role in the Watanabe murders.
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* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Preston Exley shows up, and is no less corrupt than he was in ''Literature/LAConfidetial''.''Literature/LAConfidential''. He pitches an elaborate plan to profit off the internment of Japanese-Americans (Bill Parker manages to kill it) and his real estate scheme plays a role in the Watanabe murders.
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* ExactWords: One night, in bed, Bette Davis sleepily tells Dudley "Kill a Jap for me," in reference to Dudley's forthcoming Army commission. So Dudley walks out onto the street, finds a Japanese man in a phone booth, says "This is for Bette Davis" and shoots him in the face.
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* TitleDrop: The song "Perfidia" is name-dropped a few times. The title of the book is partly a reference to the song and partly a reference to the Spanish word for perfidy.
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* DeliberateValuesDissonance: Literally everyone in the novel refers to "Japs," which the 21st century regards as a terrible racial slur.
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* ThePeepingTom: Hideo's clever tripwire-activated camera plays a huge role in unraveling the book-spanning mystery. It's also his second version of the device - he created the first version in high school, when he used it to secretly take pictures of Bucky Bleichert in the gym showers.
