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* BadCopIncompetentCop: Shortly after coming to town the Op gets a look at some of Personville's finest - one needs a shave, another has a uniform that's missing some buttons and desperately needs washing, and the third one directs traffic while smoking a cigarette. The Op gives up checking them out after that; his opinion does not improve over the course of the book either.
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** Not that [[spoiler:Max Thaler]] doesn't have a fair amount of corpses to his name but he didn't actually kill either [[spoiler: Donald Wilsson or Dinah Brand. He even avenges the latter's death by fatally wounding Reno Starkey.]]
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** Not that [[spoiler:Max Thaler]] doesn't have a fair amount of corpses to his name but he didn't actually kill either [[spoiler: Donald Wilsson or Dinah Brand.Brand (or Tim Noonan for that matter). He even avenges the latter's death by fatally wounding Reno Starkey.]]
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Um yeah, no. It's pretty much all but outright stated that Dawn was killed on Reno Starkey's orders after trying to blackmail him like he did the Op.
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* AmbiguousSituation: It’s never confirmed who killed [[spoiler: Charles Proctor Dawn. The Op believes it was Dan Rolff but never conclusively finds evidence to that idea.]]
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''Red Harvest'' is not related to ''Literature/StarWarsRedHarvest'' or ''[[Film/ReturnOfTheJedi Blue Harvest: Horror Beyond Imagination]]''.
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''Red Harvest'' is not related to ''Literature/StarWarsRedHarvest'' or ''[[Film/ReturnOfTheJedi Blue Harvest: Horror Beyond Imagination]]''.Imagination]]'', although the latter's title may have been intended as a ShoutOut to it (Creator/GeorgeLucas was an acknowledged fan of Creator/AkiraKurosawa, who is believed to have been influenced by the novel).
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* BigBadEnsemble: The various factions— Whisper, Lew Yard, Pete the Finn, and Chief Noonan— are equal obstacles the Op has to overcome. As characters start getting bumped off, others like Reno Starkey rise up to take their place until there isn’t anymore thugs left.
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* BigBadEnsemble: The various factions— Whisper, Lew Yard, Pete the Finn, and Chief Noonan— are equal obstacles the Op has to overcome. As characters start getting bumped off, others like Reno Starkey rise up to take their place until there isn’t anymore aren't any more thugs left.
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* SmugSnake: Charles Proctor Dawn is a slimy lawyer who looks to take advantage of all the scandals in town to squeeze all the money he can out of people. For all his verbosity and pretentiousness, he’s just a petty blackmailer who a year prior to the events of the novel had just barely escaped jail time himself for his shenanigans. He appears in all of two scenes before [[spoiler: the Op finds him dead of a broken neck in his office.]]
** Dinah Brand is a pretty rare example in tht she's a fairly sympathetic character - while she is pretty good at stringing her boyfriends along, she's nowhere near as good at keeping them under control as she thinks she is, and when the consequences of her actions start catching up to her her terrified reactions make her quite pitiable.
** Dinah Brand is a pretty rare example in tht she's a fairly sympathetic character - while she is pretty good at stringing her boyfriends along, she's nowhere near as good at keeping them under control as she thinks she is, and when the consequences of her actions start catching up to her her terrified reactions make her quite pitiable.
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* SmugSnake: SmugSnake:
** Charles Proctor Dawn is a slimy lawyer who looks to take advantage of all the scandals in town to squeeze all the money he can out of people. For all his verbosity and pretentiousness, he’s just a petty blackmailer who a year prior to the events of the novel had just barely escaped jail time himself for his shenanigans. He appears in all of two scenes before [[spoiler: the Op finds him dead of a broken neck in his office.]]
** Dinah Brand is a pretty rare example intht that she's a fairly sympathetic character - while she is pretty good at stringing her boyfriends along, she's nowhere near as good at keeping them under control as she thinks she is, and when the consequences of her actions start catching up to her her terrified reactions make her quite pitiable.
** Charles Proctor Dawn is a slimy lawyer who looks to take advantage of all the scandals in town to squeeze all the money he can out of people. For all his verbosity and pretentiousness, he’s just a petty blackmailer who a year prior to the events of the novel had just barely escaped jail time himself for his shenanigans. He appears in all of two scenes before [[spoiler: the Op finds him dead of a broken neck in his office.]]
** Dinah Brand is a pretty rare example in
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* VillainousGlutton: Dinah Brand occasionally talks about how hungry she is. At one point she demands that the Op take her out for an enormous quantity of chow mein. In general, she can pack away food just about as well as [[BigEater the Op himself.]]
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* VillainousGlutton: Dinah Brand occasionally talks about how hungry she is. At one point she demands that the Op take her out for an enormous "enormous quantity of chow mein. mein." In general, she can pack away food just about as well as [[BigEater the Op himself.]]
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** Dinah Brand is a pretty rare example in tht she's a fairly sympathetic character - while she is pretty good at stringing her boyfriends along, she's nowhere near as good at keeping them under control as she thinks she is, and when the consequences of her actions start catching up to her her terrified reactions make her quite pitiable.
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* TheGhost: Lew Yard is often referred to but never actually appears in person [[spoiler: before being killed by Reno]].
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* AffablyEvil: “Evil” might be a stretch but Noonan is a dirty cop looking to set up Whisper for a fall whether by legitimate or illegitimate means and has aligned with gangster Lew Yard to get it done. Nonetheless, he is consistently polite and jovial to the Op even while everything’s going to hell for him.
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* AffablyEvil: “Evil” might be a stretch but Noonan is a dirty cop looking to set up Whisper for a fall whether by legitimate or illegitimate means and has aligned with gangster Lew Yard to get it done. Nonetheless, he is consistently polite and jovial to the Op even while everything’s going to hell for him.him, though he ''does'' try to have the Op killed not long after their first meeting.
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** [[spoiler: Max Thaler]] dies avenging [[spoiler: Dinah's]] death despite being sold out by the latter to the Op and basically all ties between them being severed.
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* MeaningfulName: Dinah the GoldDigger's ex-boyfriend is the gangster Max Thaler. A "thaler" is a silver coin and the origin of the word "dollar."
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* MeaningfulName: Dinah the GoldDigger's ex-boyfriend is the gangster Max Thaler. A "thaler" is a silver coin and the origin of the word "dollar." For that matter Dinah's name isn't too far removed from [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinar "dinar"]].
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** [[spoiler: The Op]] also gets accused of killing [[spoiler: both Dinah and Dawn]] but since he’s the [[spoiler: POV character]], he clearly did neither.
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** [[spoiler: The Op]] also gets accused of killing [[spoiler: both Dinah and Dawn]] but since he’s the [[spoiler: POV character]], he clearly did neither. Played with quite considerably, as the Op was completely shitfaced on gin and laudanum when [[spoiler: Dinah was killed]] and spends a good chunk of the novel unsure whether he did it or not. [[spoiler: He didn't.]]
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* BlackAndGrayMorality: Our protagonist is an anti-hero working for a ruthless industrialist who came to power using unscrupulous means. The antagonists are corrupt cops and gangsters that worked for the industrialist.
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* BlackAndGrayMorality: Our protagonist is an anti-hero working for a ruthless industrialist who came to power using unscrupulous means. The antagonists are corrupt cops and gangsters that worked for the industrialist. The Op himself states at one point that he'd love to wrap the whole thing up by sending his client to the gallows [[spoiler: [[KarmaHoudini but it doesn't come to pass]].]]
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* WrongfullyAccused: Not that [[spoiler:Max Thaler]] doesn't have a fair amount of corpses to his name but he didn't actually kill either [[spoiler: Donald Wilsson or Dinah Brand. He even avenges the latter's death by fatally wounding Reno Starkey.]]
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** Not that [[spoiler:Max Thaler]] doesn't have a fair amount of corpses to his name but he didn't actually kill either [[spoiler: Donald Wilsson or Dinah Brand. He even avenges the latter's death by fatally wounding Reno Starkey.]]
** Not that [[spoiler:Max Thaler]] doesn't have a fair amount of corpses to his name but he didn't actually kill either [[spoiler: Donald Wilsson or Dinah Brand. He even avenges the latter's death by fatally wounding Reno Starkey.]]
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** Tim Noonan was [[spoiler: shot in a altercation with MacSwain who was confronting Tim over an affair Tim was having with MacSwain’s wife only to leave her for Myrtle Jennison]].
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** Tim Noonan was [[spoiler: shot in a altercation with MacSwain [=MacSwain=] who was confronting Tim over an affair Tim was having with MacSwain’s [=MacSwain=]'s wife only to leave her for Myrtle Jennison]].
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* FirstPersonSmartass: The Op isn’t afraid to tell the reader if he thinks a character is full of it.
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* FalseFlagOperation: [[spoiler: Noonan and Yard]] conspire to frame [[spoiler: Whisper’s crew]] with a bank heist by having [[spoiler: Reno bring Whisper’s man Jerry along to be killed.]]
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* AffablyEvil: “Evil” might be a stretch but Noonan is a dirty cop looking to set up Whisper for a fall whether by legitimate or illegitimate means and has aligned with gangster Lew Yard to get it done. Nonetheless, he is consistently polite and jovial to the Op even while everything’s going to hell for him.
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* DaChief: The Old Man operates as a private agency version of this, expecting his agents to adhere to a strict code of ethics in the field. The Op notes he appreciates the idea but practically is likely breaking every rule the Old Man has set during his time in Personville. The Op tells his fellow compatriots not to reveal any of it to their superiors for concern the Old Man will object. Sure enough, after the Op gets back to San Francisco, the Old Man apparently gives him “merry hell” for his actions there.
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* TeethClenchedTeamwork: Despite their business relationship as investigator and client, the Op and Elihu spend more time together cursing each other than anything else.
